[6] Film production was interrupted by World War II, and restarted in 1946, when the studio assumed its current name.

After World War II, the studio was dubbed Partizanfilm, due to the large output of films portraying the Soviet partisan's struggle against Nazi occupation.

Belarusfilm is also a co-organizer of the Listapad film festival annually held in Minsk, Belarus in November.

In 2012, Sergei Loznitsa’s In the Fog shot jointly with Belarusfilm won the FIPRESCI prize at the 65th Cannes Film Festival.

In 2019, Belarusfilm signed a memorandum of long-term cooperation with the Indian Union of Trade and Industry Promotion Organization.