Part of the V&A Performance Festival
Join members of Belarus Free Theatre for an afternoon exploring their work, artistic process, and the dual nature of their existence in Minsk and London.
We’ll start with a screening of the documentary Acting For Freedom – The Battle of Belarus Free Theatre, followed by a post-screening discussion with the director and members of the company, an interactive presentation of BFT’s work, and a live link up to Minsk.
The Goethe-Institut London is particularly delighted to be facilitating the post-screening discussion with Friedemann Hottenbacher (filmmaker from Germany) and Sveta Sugako (Belarus Free Theatre, Minsk) enabling the urgent debate around censorship, freedom of democracy and the power of arts in this respect.
Supported by the Goethe-Institut London.
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Friedemann Hottenbacher
grew up in Japan and studied sociology and religious studies before working as a TV author. He has produced a series of documentaries for the series "hitec" (3sat), ZDF and ARTE, among others. He also supervises the project development of documentary material.
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Svetlana Sugako
Svetlana joined Belarus Free Theatre in 2005 as an administrator, assistant director and occasional performer. She is now Co-Managing Director of the company in Minsk, and also Stage Manager for all of BFT’s international productions including, most recently, Burnings Doors. Svetlana is also a musician and songwriter, formerly in band Tarpach. In 2006, she was jailed for 7 days for shouting the anti-state slogan ‘Long Live Belarus’ after the presidential election.
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