MTÜ Northern Lights Institute

In June 2023 film producer Volia Chajkouskaya together with Belarusian artist in Estonian Tatiana Vorozhun founded a non-profit organization Northern Lights Institute MTÜ. The organizations’ major activities are connected to several major long-lasting projects: Northern Lights Film Festival, VODBLISK online cinema, collaboration with Belarusian Independent Film Academy, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary activities. Northern Lights Institute aims to connect Belarus with the culture of Baltic and Nordic countries. Some of the primary goals of the organization comprise presentation and promotion of independent Belarusian cinema on the international market; conducting seminars, workshops, lectures, introductions, trainings and other short and long-term holding educational events to increase cinematographic literacy, awareness, knowledge and competence among independent Belarusian filmmakers. One of the latest successes of Northern Lights Institute MTÜ is collaboration with Danish film festival CPH:DOX in March 2024, where the organization brings a delegation of 8 Belarusian filmmakers to visit and network and one of the major documentary film festivals in the world. The organization also just recently got financed for a 6-months term for the activities of VODBLISK online cinema via ArtPower Belarus.