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Svetlana has lost her son who was found dead while he was in the army. As she tries to shed light on the culture of violence and abuse in the Belarusian military, a group of young friends from the techno underground soon face being drafted themselves. They go to rave parties in undershirts and round sunglasses, but in a moment the party could be over – at least until huge protests break out in the streets following the recent ‘re-election’ of dictator-president and Putin sympathiser, Aleksandr Lukashenko. A glimmer of hope and a promise of change, which only causes the brutality of the authoritarian society to erupt in full force.
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[CPH:DOX '23] A film endowed with a clarifying and deeply disturbing look that describes the consequences of a system of hazing in the army inherited from the former Soviet Union that persists in countries like Belarus. With a series of narrative layers that give complexity to the story and an outstanding sense of cinematographic visualization, the film creates a disturbing atmosphere that reflects in the last part the transmission of this intrinsic violence to the police in charge of controlling the demonstrations against the president in 2020, with chilling brutality.