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The documentary film The Human Code has been presented at the national competition of the 32nd Minsk International Film Festival Listapad. It is based on the scientific and creative ideas of BSU Rector Andrei Korol, BelTA has learned.

The 32nd Minsk International Film Festival Listapad will be running from 30 October to November 6 under the slogan «Watch, Live, Appreciate». 

Holder of the Lady Belarus 2025 title and mother of many children Margaryta Maskeliene has become the fourth vice-missus at the 49th international beauty pageant Mrs Universe, representatives of Belarus’ National School of Beauty told BelTA.

Japanese writer and film director Ryu Murakami, author of Almost Transparent Blue, died on October 17 at the age of 74. His death was announced on October 23 by Gentosha, the publishing house he had collaborated with since the 1990s. The cause of death was not disclosed.

The outstanding Israeli virtuoso guitarist Yoram Zerbib will perform in Minsk for the first time on the stage of the Belarusian State Philharmonic, BelTA has learned.

Seventeen films will be presented in the main competition of feature films at the 32rd Minsk International Film Festival Listapad, program director of the main feature film competition, Yanika Prestinskaya told the media in Minsk on 15 October, BelTA has learned. 

The Republican Theater of Belarusian Drama will take part in the international theater festival of the Beijing People’s Art Theater. Audiences will be able to see Vechar [Evening], a performance project of the Belarusian Drama Center based on a play by Honored Figure of Arts Aleksei Dudarev, on 22-25 October, representatives of the cultural institution told BelTA.

Archaeological excavations at Lida Castle have breathed new life into a medieval artifact: a crystal replica, crafted at Glassworks Neman based on the original find, will serve as a new symbol of the venue, the Lida Historical and Art Museum told BelTA.

Belarusian brands Davidova and T. Efremova & IRRA (by Irina Rombalskaya) presented their new collections at Moscow Fashion Week, which runs from September 26 to October 1.

Today marks the 95th anniversary of the birth of Nil Semyonovich Hilevich, a People’s Poet of Belarus, translator, literary scholar, folklorist, playwright, and scientist. His creative legacy is difficult to confine to a single definition: he wrote poetry and narrative poems, researched Belarusian literature and folk songs, collected folklore, translated works by foreign authors, and created dramatic and journalistic pieces. Throughout all of this, the central element of his work remained the word-native, living, heard in childhood, and carried through his entire life.