{"id":562727,"date":"2026-07-27T02:24:29","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T23:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=562727"},"modified":"2026-07-27T11:14:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T08:14:10","slug":"occupation-mysteries-creator-andrei-kudzinenka-forced-to-leave-belarus-after-omon-and-kgb-raid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/occupation-mysteries-creator-andrei-kudzinenka-forced-to-leave-belarus-after-omon-and-kgb-raid","title":{"rendered":"Occupation. Mysteries Creator Andrei Kudzinenka Forced to Leave Belarus After OMON and KGB Raid"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Belarusian film director <b>Andrei Kudzinenka<\/b> has left Belarus. The news was announced by his friend and colleague, Bulbamovie festival director <b>Janusz Gawryluk<\/b>, on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo?fbid=27628596140139157&amp;set=a.862675313824603\">social media page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the director is now safe:<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cFortunately, Andrei is now safe. But this story once again shows the conditions in which Belarusian artists are forced to live and work,\u201d <\/i>Gawryluk wrote.<\/p>\n<p>The persecution of the director was accompanied by intense pressure from the security forces. Searches of his apartment and the private film school \u201cKinaKalaider,\u201d where Kudzinenka served as director, lasted nearly 15 hours. Eight OMON officers and two KGB officers took part in the raids. The director\u2019s passport and phone were confiscated.<\/p>\n<p>Janusz Gawryluk wrote that the security forces threatened the filmmaker with a prison sentence of between eight and 12 years on \u201cextremism\u201d charges.<\/p>\n<p>An important warning: all of Andrei Kudzinenka\u2019s messaging accounts and social media profiles are now under the control of the KGB. Any messages or attempts to make contact in his name may be dangerous.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the difficult situation in the country, Andrei Kudzinenka had remained in Belarus throughout this period. Most recently, he headed and worked at the private Minsk film school \u201cKinaKalaider,\u201d which supported film culture and filmmaking.<\/p>\n<p>Andrei Kudzinenka is a Belarusian film director, screenwriter and actor. He gained widespread recognition with the feature film \u201cOccupation. Mysteries\u201d (2003), a controversial and widely discussed film about World War II. His body of work also includes the first Belarusian supernatural thriller \u201cMassacre\u201d (2010), produced at Belarusfilm, as well as the films \u201cBattle of the Five Armies,\u201d \u201cThe Draw,\u201d \u201cHard Reboot,\u201d and \u201cFanat.\u201d He is the curator of the multimedia project \u201cChronotop\u201d and a co-founder of the Bulbamovie festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belarusian film director Andrei Kudzinenka has left Belarus. The news was announced by his friend and colleague, Bulbamovie festival director Janusz Gawryluk, on his social media page. According to him, the director is now safe: \u201cFortunately, Andrei is now safe. But this story once again shows the conditions in which Belarusian artists are forced to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":562726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a671356e1a9f.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Occupation. 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