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Original name: Under the Grey Sky
English name: Under the Grey Sky
Year: 2024
Run time: 81 minutes
Language: Belarusian, Russian
Type (Colour/ Black & white): Colour
Country: Poland
Director: Mara Tamkovich
Producer: Katarzyna Ocioszynska
Cast: Aliaksandra Vaitsekhovich, Valentin Novopolskij
Screenplay: Mara Tamkovich
Cinematographer: Krzysztof Trela
Editor: Katarzyna Leśniak
Sound Designer: Joanna Napieralska
Costume Designer: Anna Pietrzak
Production Designer: Katarzyna Pawelec
Production Company: Media Corporation (Poland)
World Sales: Loco Films
Polish-belarusian director and scriptwriter. She studied journalism at Warsaw University, film directing at Warsaw Film School and at Wajda School. For nearly ten years she worked as a journalist for independent Belarusian TV and Radio broadcasting from abroad to deliver uncensored information to Belarusians. As a filmmaker, Mara focuses on socially relevant topics, deeply connected to reality. Her short films were shown at numerous festivals in Poland and abroad, receiving awards at 58th Chicago IFF, 47th Gdynia Film Festival, Listapad Minsk IFF, FEST— New Directors | New Films Festival, Linz ISFF and others. Under the Grey Sky is her debut feature. Mara is a member of Polish Filmmakers Association and Belarusian Independent Film Academy.
When anti-regime journalist Lena is arrested for livestreaming the brutal crackdown of a demonstration protesting the 2020 Belarusian election, her husband Ilya is confronted with an impossible situation. Subjected to further police raids and facing the likely reality that his wife will spend years in prison, Ilya must reckon with what he might have to give up by standing with Lena. At the same time, an incarcerated Lena is under pressure from the authorities to renounce her activism and betray her firmly held principles.
