COOL (News from Belarus) (2023)
In this cinematic zine, directors scattered all over the world adapt to screen hilarious and poignant Belarusian news stories. Featuring phone thieves, TikTok storks, the tiniest castle in the world, and victims of the depression epidemic.
- Date of release
- 2023-06-08
- Runtime
- 2h 11m
- Genres
- Crime, Comedy, Drama, Documentary, Animation
- Director
- Ari Gold, Viktor Lebedev, Ihar Chyshchenia, Radu Jude, Pierre Léon, Antos Sivyh, Tamara Granatkina, Christopher Small, Vladislav Novozhilov, Victoria Zenchuk, Andrey Kashpersky, Yulya Astrovskaya, Osman Nabiev, Nikita Lavretski, Timur Nedved, Aglaya Yunova, Michelle G. Stratton, Waja Shchipko, Masha Herz, Pavel Nedzvedz
Casting
- Slava Abelyan — Vasily Petrovich (segment "Ostap")
- Andrey Apanovich — Ganesha (segment "Depression?")
- Yulya Astrovskaya — Self (segment "A Blissful House on the Water")
- Timur Batdalov — Ostap (segment "Ostap")
- Ilja Bozhko — Man (segment "Sugar")
- Brian Bell — Hank (segment "I love me")
- Ihar Chyshchenia — Self (segment "25% of Minsk Residents Have Depression")
- Cristopher W. Croton — Saroka (segment "Story 26")
- Anna Den — Teenager (segment "Belarusian Man Began to Pleasure Self")
- Andrey Freyman — Black Policeman (segment "Man Began to Pleasure Self")
- Ari Gold — Shlomo (segment "I Love Me")
- Daniela Hanusova — Self (segment "Pohlednice")
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