COOL (News from Belarus)
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.
Principal Cast
Slava Abelyan
Vasily Petrovich (segment "Ostap")
Andrey Apanovich
Ganesha (segment "Depression?")
Yulya Astrovskaya
Self (segment "A Blissful House on the Water")
Timur Batdalov
Ostap (segment "Ostap")
Ilja Bozhko
Man (segment "Sugar")
Brian Bell
Hank (segment "I love me")
Ihar Chyshchenia
Self (segment "25% of Minsk Residents Have Depression")
Cristopher W. Croton
Saroka (segment "Story 26")
Anna Den
Teenager (segment "Belarusian Man Began to Pleasure Self")
Andrey Freyman
Black Policeman (segment "Man Began to Pleasure Self")
Ari Gold
Shlomo (segment "I Love Me")
Daniela Hanusova
Self (segment "Pohlednice")
Radu Jude
Self (segment "A Belarusian Stork")
Lika Kareva
Woman (segment "Ostap")
Andrey Kashpersky
Man (segment "Sugar")