COOL (News from Belarus) (2023)
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.
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Cast
Brian Bell
as Hank (segment "I love me")
Brian Lane Bell is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter and actor. He is best known as the rhythm guitarist, backing vocalist and occasional lead vocalist of the alternative rock band Weezer, w...
Anna Den
as Teenager (segment "Belarusian Man Began to Pleasure Self")
Radu Jude
as Self (segment "A Belarusian Stork")
Radu Jude is a Romanian film director and screenwriter born in Bucharest in 1977, known for his complex, often political, and anarchic films that explore historical memory, labor, and contemporary soc...
Andrey Kashpersky
as Man (segment "Sugar")
Andrey Kashpersky (Belarusian: Андрэй Кашперскі; 27 June 1995) is a Belarusian filmmaker..
Nikita Lavretski
as Leonid Boulianov (segment "Nano")
Nikita Lavretski (1994, Minsk, Belarus) is “the most interesting gagman of the invisible Belarusian scene” (per Cahiers du Cinema). His debut feature “Belarusian Psycho” (2015) won the Best Belarusian...
Viktor Lebedev
as Ivan (segment "Belarusian Man Began to Pleasure Self")
Director
Ari Gold