An astonishing example of international protest art, Voices of the New Belarus (2022, 75 min.) addresses the challenges of Belarusians’ resistance to the autocratic regime of Alexander Lukashenko and the dire situation of political detainees in post-Soviet Belarus.
The film will be followed by a discussion “Witness, Evidence, Art: Documentary Film and Theatre as a Counter-Archive to Authoritarian Revisionism (Belarus 2020 as a Case Study)” with director Andrei Kureichik; Nina Kamberos, the publisher of Laertes Press; and William Nickell, Associate Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages & Literature.
Andrei Kureichik, a writer and theater and cinema director from Belarus who is currently in exile, is renowned for his artistic solidarity initiatives that have traversed over forty nations. Andrei received the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Expression from the European Parliament in 2020 in recognition of his advocacy for human rights while serving on the Coordination Council of Belarus. He is currently a Neubauer Fellow and PhD Student in Theatre and Slavic Studies at University of Chicago.