Scene from the film Black Poliuka

Audience award: 28. Ji.hlava IDFF // Short Joy

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Black Poliuka

Direction
Year 
2024
Country
  • Belarus
  • Germany
Runtime
21min 
Audio Tracks 
Subtitles 

One of the qualities that is most ingrained in Eastern European culture is hospitality. Welcoming the guest, setting the table and making sure they return home full and satisfied. But what if a guest has dropped in uninvited and their hunger cannot be satisfied, no matter how hard we try? Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, Tania Licheuskaya has been recording the first events at the Luninets air base in Belarus, and the black soup she cooks for uninvited guests from the neighbouring country becomes a symbol of resistance.

“He breaks into your home without knocking, he is hungry and hopes you will feed him. He has always been hungry, and he likes to expand the boundaries of his appetite. This hunger has a dark history of liberation wars, peacekeeping and anti-terrorist operations.”

Details

  • Original Title
    Čornaja Poliŭka
  • Direction
  • Runtime
    21 min (16-30 min.)
  • Year
    2024
  • Country
    • Belarus
    • Germany
  • Format
    • Colour

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