A wave of protest demonstrations swept over Belarus after the 2020 presidential elections. Security forces used excessive violence to disperse the demonstrators and some 7,000 people were arrested. Hundreds of victims from the rallies recount their experiences, which reveal the repressive system; these memories are reconstructed in the director’s room in Berlin.
Since the age of ten Pavel Mozhar has spent his life between Minsk and Berlin. He studied philosophy and documentary filmmaking as well as media. His humble room in Berlin is transformed into a slice of Belarusian reality – a cinematic directory of an oral history of the 2020 protests and governmental crackdown.