Canadian Premiere • Grand Prize competition

After the Soviet Union collapsed, Belarus became an independent country and a humanistic Lyceum was founded in Minsk, with the aim of raising an elite Belarussian intelligentsia. However, in 1995, Lukashenka comes to power. Democracy and freedom come to an end. The Lyceum students do not give up though. They steadfastly keep studying in the underground. Despite the fear of repression, they express their views by all means in particular in their music. They deeply believe that one day Belarus will be a free country.

Awards
Prix pour le meilleur documentaire d’Europe de l’Est ; International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, Leipzig, Germany, 2006 ; Prix “The Moviesquad DocU”, International Documentary Film Festival, Amsterdam, Pays-Bas, 2006 ; Prix du meilleur acteur pour Franek Viacorka, International Film Festival KINOLEW, Lvov, Ukraine, 2007 ; Mention spéciale du Jury du meilleur documentaire, International Documentary Film Festival, Mexico, Mexique, 2007 ; Prix du Festival des Libertés, Bruxelles, Belgique, 2007.

Miroslaw Dembinski
Born 1959 in Poland, he graduated in film directing at the Polish National Film School (Lodz, Poland). He has been teaching documentary directing since 1990. He directed almost 30 films, series, documentaries, which have received almost 80 international film festivals prizes.