Dangerous Acts
2014 is already a fantastic year for documentary movies and Dangerous Acts is another movie to watch out for at the end of this month.
Dangerous Acts sees Madeleine Sackler return to the director’s chair in what is her second feature film documentary: the movie is set to premiere at the Human Rights Watch Film Festival.
I have already seen the movie, and it really is a fascinating watch about a group of people who use art as a way of trying to bring change to Belarus.
Ahead of the film’s release at the end of the month, we have the brand new trailer for you to take a look at:
Creating provocative theatre carries great personal risks: emotional, financial and artistic. For the members of the Belarus Free Theatre, there are additional risks: censorship, imprisonment, and worse.
Director Madeleine Sackler goes behind the scenes with the acclaimed troupe of imaginative and subversive performers who, in a desolate country choked by censorship and repression, defy Europe’s last remaining dictatorship.
The film picks up the story in 2010 when the KGB is cracking down on dissenters, sixteen years after Belarus’ President Alexander Lukashenko takes power during the breakup of the Soviet Union.
Now, as a dubious new presidential election looms, the KGB targets the Free Theatre’s founders Nikolai Khalezin and Natalia Koliada who, along with their colleagues, find themselves torn between fighting for their art and for their and their families’ safety.
We have already been treated to some fascinating and terrific documentaries in the first two and a half months of 2014, and Dangerous Acts is another that is not to be missed.
Dangerous Acts is released 28th March.