The film Belarus 23.34 is a story of Belarusians who faced repressions: a guy who was simply riding his bicycle near Minsk Hero City Obelisk and ended up in hell in Okrestina; a plumber who went out on Frunzenskaya station because the subway train did not go any further, and a few minutes later he was already lying on the sidewalk with his heel torn off; a mother of seven children, who went to a prison truck, protecting her son, and saw him being marked with red paint; a female doctor who was gassed in a prison truck, and then forced to duck and run along the corridors of the Zhodina prison...

30 brave people told us how they experienced detention and torture in the period between August and December 2020, how they feel, and what, in their opinion, changed within Belarusian society. 25 of these interviews were used in the film. The effect is enhanced by the black background against which these people tell their stories, filming the places they talk about, and using the footage of surveillance cameras to illustrate and confirm their words.

The film shows the path of the detainee on a protest action in Belarus: march, detention, a ride in a prison truck, registration at a police station, trial, prison, release, and, finally, reflection on the experience.

The world is getting smaller and options are growing wider, borders are disappearing but are we getting closer to each other… or are we drifting further apart?

In today’s central Europe, it is no longer a norm to get married as soon as we reach adulthood. New times bring new relationship options: we’re singles, often mingles and if we want to have some fun we make friends with benefits. Serial monogamy is getting more complicated, planned polygamy might be the answer but love is often beyond our reach: there is open love, multi-love, divorced love...

Happily Ever After focuses on contemporary forms of partnership. The film introduces a mosaic of four stories that differ from traditional relationships. One couple is polyamorous and lives in a polycule that includes up to 5 people. The second couple decided to have an open relationship and lives in a commune. The third relationship is between a married man and a mistress, who seems to be fine with the arrangement. The fourth couple presents something that is not very common these days – a life-long commitment to a religious marriage, without premarital sex. Different stories, different relationships, and different reasons behind them.

Mariam has been haunted by an Abastumani nightmare for 7 years. One day she goes to meet the building and face the monster from her dreams.

In a Georgian mountain forest, there is a 100-year-old palace where outcasts live. Abastumani is the only shelter where patients receive treatment for TB from old Soviet doctors.

In the morning, Abastumani looks like a hospital where patients stand in long queues waiting for pills. In the afternoon, the building transforms into a social centre where players gamble under clouds of cigarette smoke, killing time. At night, after the doctors go home, Abastumani becomes a dangerous place, where alcohol and drugs make patients violent.

As Mariam gets to know the inhabitants of Abastumani and learns about the rich history of the building, its connection to the Russian empire, the Soviet Union, and finally independent Georgia, she overcomes the fear of her nightmare but discovers something much more dangerous.

A Georgian oligarch is buying the building, sending all the inhabitants away and destroying it to build his own dream that will outlive him. Abastumani, which served as a shelter for so many hopeless people, and is a reminder to Georgia of its Russian and Soviet oppression, is turned to dust. He who destroys the past controls the future.

Štefan Pongo is a Roma lorry driver. Fifteen years ago, he emigrated with his family from the Czech Republic to the UK to protect them from racial discrimination. The children have graduated from universities and the family is doing well. Mission completed. But the echoes of hate carry over from the old country.

When the Czech president claims that the Roma are work-shy, angry Štefan issues an appeal asking for photos of Roma working. Thousands are sent and Štefan becomes a well-known media figure. He produces vlogs and organises demonstrations and humanitarian aid. He establishes a voluntary agency and fights an online battle with the “haters”. All that comes at the cost of lost time with the family. Štefan’s spirited wife, Iveta, has had enough.

Will it be possible to institute some form of harmony in the life of the most famous Roma lorry driver?

Daria (41) lives in Mexico with her five-year-old daughter Daphne and her husband Dave. Her peaceful life is shaken when she discovers that she is not the only child of her mother and that her biological siblings are located in Poland. Daria goes to her hometown of Toruń to unveil the mystery of the past and confront her mother Wiesia and grandmother Adela. She also meets her rediscovered brother, Mariusz.

How many more brothers and sisters will Daria discover? And why did her mother give all these children up for adoption? Wiesia and Adela refuse to talk, but step by step Daria comes closer to the truth. She is assisted by professional genealogical researchers and her friends from childhood. Her mother also starts revealing some secrets.

Daria slowly realises what happened to her mother and that her alcohol addiction and hard-to-accept life choices may result from very deep trauma. The relationship between mother and daughter has always been full of pain and mutual regret, but now Daria tries to build it all anew. Will she manage to do that? The burden of the past takes one of the women to the extreme.