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The Belarusian Solidarity Day: “Liberation”

On 16 March 2009, the Belarusian Solidarity Day, the Human Rights House in Vilnius and the United Center of Initiatives for Belarus invite you to the screening of “Liberation” and meeting with the film director and its main characters.

Published: March 5, 2009 Author: Anna Gerasimova

When: Monday, 16. March 2009 18:30-20:30
To: Monday, 16. March 2009
Where: Vilnius, Latako g. 3
Host: Belarusian Human Rights House
Contact: Anna Gerasimova (belarus@humanrightshouse.org / +370 5 212 77 03)

Where does freedom begin? At another protest action, a scuffle with those who protect the dictator, or at home, in one’s family or one’s heart? What are they really like, today’s heroes of Belarus? Who is in a more difficult situation: a political prisoner or his mother? Where do they draw their strength from, when everybody else seems to have given up? Can being behind bars actually imprison free spirit?

A new film by Belarusian film director Volha Nikalaichyk, “Liberation”, is an attempt to comprehend this simple and yet complicated, close and distant, attainable and evasive birth of freedom. Liberation.

Time: 18:30
Venue: Latako 3, Vilnius
Film duration: 90 minutes
Film language: Belarusian with English subtitles
Entrance: free

Let’s be together!

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