KS6 : Small Forward

From sport to politics, basketball player katsiaryna snytsina vividly retraces her journey.

In a space that blends sports field and TV studio, Olympian Katsiaryna Snytsina recalls how she became a target of the Lukashenko regime by denouncing the rigged results of the 2020 presidential election and revealing her homosexuality. The basketball star, now in forced exile in London like the founders of Belarus Free Theatre, re-enacts her last game and recounts her years as a professional sportswoman far from any political preoccupations. Carried along by the effervescence of a soundtrack performed by DJ Blanka Barbara, her presence radiates an energy and freedom all the more telling because her testimony is also a warning against the fragility of our democracies.

Hugues Le Tanneur