A Lesson of Belarusian is first and foremost a rousing little testimonial to the activist chutzpah of a group of Belarusian students trying to promote opposition to the dictatorship of President Alexander Lukashenko. It is also—unintentionally and somewhat distractingly—a substantiation of Borat's outrageous aesthetic. At least during sections culled from the guerilla work of its student subjects, it becomes necessary to erase the Sacha Baron Cohen comic vehicle from the mind to truly appreciate Miroslaw Dembinski's documentary. A Lesson of Belarusian lacks for focus, and though foreigners may cry out for background into Belarus's political nightmare, it is nonetheless successful at capturing a country gripped in terror by the "ambitious sticks" of Lukashenko's militia, promoting a brand of fearless opposition that we can all understand. A Lesson of Belarusian will have its New York premiere at the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival, preceded by the shorts Pizza Surveillance Feature and Virtual Freedom.  Ed Gonzalez