BELARUSIAN WALTZ

Andrzej Fidyk is a documentary filmmaker, director and screenwriter. He was born in Warsaw in 1953. A graduate of the Department of International Trade Relations of the Warsaw School of Economics, he started working for television in 1980. From 1991 to 1996 he worked for the BBC in the Music and Arts Department and between 1996-2004 he was the director of the Documentary Department at Polish Television. His documentaries have won numerous awards at international film festivals. One of his best known works is The Parade, which depicts the mass parades choreographed to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) in 1988. The award-winning documentary Battu’s Bioscope chronicles the visit of a mobile cinema to a primitive Indian tribe that doesn’t even know that cinema exists. Fidyk returned to the subject of human rights under repressive regimes in his two most recent films, Belarusian Waltz and Yodok Stories.