Tag: Motherland
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MOTHERLAND Probes the Neo-Nationalist, Post-Soviet Oppression – Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] Belarusian filmmakers Alexander Mihalkovich and Hanna Badziaka descend into the country’s underbelly of military culture in their latest work, Motherland. The documentary doubles as an inquiry into the traumatic, decades-old tradition of violent bullying among Belarusian military conscripts. The mechanism proved to be a tried and tested tool for discipline-forging and manipulation. Yet it came…
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Belarus military abuse documentary ‘Motherland’ wins CPH:DOX 2023 main prize | News – Armessa Movie News
[ad_1] Alexander Mihalkovich and Hanna Badziaka’s Motherland, about the brutal military culture in Belarus, has won the main Dox:Award prize at CPH:DOX 2023. The Sweden-Ukraine-Norway co-production follows two storylines: a woman trying to shed light on the culture of violence and abuse in the Belarusian military after her son was found dead while in the…