Polish-Belarusian Microbudget Debut — The 2020 Minsk Protests, a Journalist Serving Eight Years, and the Question Nobody in Belarus Can Avoid Lena, a Belarusian independent journalist, is livestreaming a peaceful protest from an apartment window above Minsk’s Square of Changes when the police drone locates the signal. She is arrested. What she believed would be a week in detention becomes a criminal conviction. Her husband Ilya, a fellow journalist who had been slower to commit to resistance,…
