Films by Jesse Mazuch

Germany 2021, 90 min
by Aliaksei Paluyan

During the presidential elections in Belarus, three actors from an underground theatre in Minsk are caught up in the wake of mass protests. It draws them onto the open streets of Minsk to protest for freedom of speech and the long-awaited change of power. But the people's voice is brutally crushed by the regime's security apparatus. Members of the theatre group are arrested. The country is on the brink of civil war. COURAGE accompanies the brave and peaceful resistance of Maryna, Pavel and Denis

Germany 2020, 45 min
by Stanislav Danylyshyn

In western Ukraine is located one of the largest Roma settlements in the country - the place is called Tábor. An isolated quarter of the city of Berehove, where live mostly Hungarian speaking Romani people. The film shows one of the days of the celebration of Easter, when the boys water the girls, receiving Easter eggs for this. After the end of the holiday many of them leave the settlement with their entire families and go to roam the country. The film reflects human being in a timeless dimensi

Germany 2017, 94 min
by Sergei Loznitsa

There are places in Europe that have remained as painful memories of the past - factories where humans were turned into ash.These places are now memorial sites that are open to the public and receive thousands of tourists every year.The film’s title refers to the eponymous novel written by W.G. Sebald, dedicated to the memory of the Holocaust.This film is an observation of the visitors to a memorial site that has been founded on the territory of a former concentration camp. Why do they go there?