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Siarhei Kavaliou

Birthplace:
Bobruysk, Belorusskaya SSR, USSR [now Babruysk, Belarus]

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Siarhei Kavaliou is a cinematographer and documentary filmmaker, creator and co-founder of the MediaHUB Batumi production studio, initiator of Belarusian Archive of Private Films. Born in Babruysk, Belarus in 1989. He graduated from a music school in the piano class. He received a higher education at Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics , majoring in engineer-economist, 2007-2012.  From 2011 to 2020, he cooperated with the media: Belsat TV, ARTE, Sky News, ARD, MDR, INTER, TV Rain, The Gurdian, Current Time, NY Times. In 2020-2021, he studied in a one-year program at a film school in Lodz, a cinematography class. In 2025 his cinematographer's debut in fiction film "The Swan Song of Fedor Ozerov" was premiered in section Forum at Berlinale 2025.  Participant of film festivals: ArtDocFest 2022, CPH:DOX 2023, DOK Leipzig 2023, Berlinale 2025.

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Cinematography:
2020  Belarus: Recalculating Route
2021  Farben im Schnee
2022  Voices. Where My Homeland Is
2023  Who, If Not Us? The Fight for Democracy in Belarus
2025  The Swan Song of Fedor Ozerov

Director of Photography:
2020  Belarus: Recalculating Route
2021  Farben im Schnee
2022  Voices. Where My Homeland Is
2023  Who, If Not Us? The Fight for Democracy in Belarus
2025  The Swan Song of Fedor Ozerov

Sound:
2020  Belarus: Recalculating Route
2021  Farben im Schnee
2022  Voices. Where My Homeland Is
2023  Who, If Not Us? The Fight for Democracy in Belarus
2025  The Swan Song of Fedor Ozerov

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