2008 Programs and Events

U.S. Embassy Presents Hollywood Classics Film Festival

An audience of over 2000 Belarusians enjoyed American cinema at the third Hollywood Classics Film Festival thanks to U.S. Embassy Minsk and local partners Pobeda Movie Theater and NGO Kinoclub. The highly acclaimed American films were showed in their original language with Russian subtitles, rare in Belarus. In his welcome remarks at the festival opening, Chargé d'Affaires Jonathan Moore emphasized that “Hollywood classics open the window into the art of film-making as well as into America itself.” The U.S. Embassy's tradition of American classic film festivals first began in July 2003. This year’s program brought together four Hollywood movies: The Best Years of Our Lives; 12 Angry Men; West Side Story; and In the Heat of the Night. While several of these were known to viewers, some of them were shown on the big screen for the first time in Belarus.