Alexander Lukashenko has held office in Belarus for 18 years, keeping power through torture, murder and kidnap. In the aftermath of the rigged 2010 elections, the regime's brutality has only continued to grow.

"Animals don't behave like that", recalls Irina, wife of the 2010 opposition candidate, Andrei Sannikov. Hundreds of people were brutally beaten and imprisoned in a single evening following the elections: part of the president's promise to "wring the necks" of the opposition. Since then, "people are isolated from information and 10 million people live in jail". This doc offers a rare and terrifying glimpse from the front line into Europe's most repressive regime.

Daffodil Productions