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.

Release: 2023-06-08

Runtime: 131 min

Cast

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Slava Abelyan

Vasily Petrovich (segment "Ostap")

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Andrey Apanovich

Ganesha (segment "Depression?")

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Yulya Astrovskaya

Self (segment "A Blissful House on the Water")

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Timur Batdalov

Ostap (segment "Ostap")

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Ilja Bozhko

Man (segment "Sugar")

Brian Bell

Hank (segment "I love me")

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Ihar Chyshchenia

Self (segment "25% of Minsk Residents Have Depression")

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Cristopher W. Croton

Saroka (segment "Story 26")

Anna Den

Teenager (segment "Belarusian Man Began to Pleasure Self")

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Andrey Freyman

Black Policeman (segment "Man Began to Pleasure Self")

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Ari Gold

Shlomo (segment "I Love Me")

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Daniela Hanusova

Self (segment "Pohlednice")

Radu Jude

Self (segment "A Belarusian Stork")

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Lika Kareva

Woman (segment "Ostap")

Andrey Kashpersky

Man (segment "Sugar")

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Kinostranets

Policeman #2 (segment "Belarusian Man Began to Pleasure Self")

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Nikolay Konov

Policeman #3 (segment "Belarusian Man Began to Pleasure Self")

Nikita Lavretski

Leonid Boulianov (segment "Nano")