When: Friday, 21. October 2011 16:30-18:20
Where: Vilnius, Cinema theatre “Pasaka”, Main Hall, Šv. Ignoto g. 4/3
Host: Inconvenient Films Festival, Belarusian HRH and Belarus Watch
Contact: Lithuanian Human Rights Centre, Birute Sabatauskaite (birute@lchr.lt)
More info: www.nepatoguskinas.lt/en/2011/events/lukashenkas-regime-does-not-like-applause
Programme:
16:30 – 17:00 Screening of the film “Staging a Revolution“ (UK/2010/27 min., dir. Mathew Charles, Albina Kovalyova)
17:00-18:20 Discussion with the director of the film and political activist from Belarus
Language of discussion: English and Russian
The Aim of the discussion: To continue awareness raising on the issues in the neighbouring Belarus, especially the rights to freedom of expression and freedom of assembly.
Moderator: Tomas Tomilinas
Discussion participants: Director of the film “Staging a Revolution” Mathew Charles, Charter97.org director Natalija Radina (tbc) and Aleh Miatselitsa, a public activist from Belarus. Description of the film “Staging a Revolution”
United Kingdom / 2010 / 27 min
Director: Mathew Charles, Albina Kovalyova
Producer: Mathew Charles
It is not easy to get to a performance by Belarus’s banned Free Theatre. People interested in going to a show are directed via email and SMS messages to a certain place on the edge of Minsk, from where they are then discreetly led to a small house. In “Europe’s last dictatorship”, as the Lukashenko regime is often known, this little building with a small improvised auditorium and a group of theatre enthusiasts is a unique island of freedom. Even though the actors are well aware that each performance in which they criticise the Lukashenko regime could well be their last, they still continue with their work
