21 INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL
 31 — 9 
May
June 2024
Meet the international Docudays UA competition programme!
Programme Review
Meet the international Docudays UA competition programme!
Programme Review
Stories that Make Us Care: A guide to the RIGHTS NOW! human rights programme
Programme Review
Stories that Make Us Care: A guide to the RIGHTS NOW! human rights programme
Programme Review
Retrospective of Claire Simon: The Beginning of New Worlds
Programme Review
Retrospective of Claire Simon: The Beginning of New Worlds
Programme Review
Essay-film as a break, as pure stubbornness
Programme Review
Essay-film as a break, as pure stubbornness
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Programme Review
DOCU/ART of Memory
Programme Review
DOCU/ART of Memory
Programme Review
TEEN SPIRIT: The Challenges of Growing Up
Programme Review
TEEN SPIRIT: The Challenges of Growing Up
Young people’s stories about self-searching, creativity, sexuality, obedience – in the main film programme of the Festival
Programme Review
DOCU/BEST: When There Is Love
Programme Review
Just Kids: Stories From All Over the World
Programme Review
Just Kids: Stories From All Over the World
Programme Review
From West to East: The DOCU/UKRAINE National Competition
Programme Review
Lost Film Found: Scotland in Focus
Programme Review
Lost Film Found: Scotland in Focus
Programme Review
DOCU/CAMP: Documenting the “Quarantine” Life
Programme Review
08 April 2020
DOCU/CAMP: Documenting the “Quarantine” Life
Explore the detailed schedule
Programme Review
08 April 2020
DOCU/CITIZEN as a way to support your favorite festival
Interviews
05 February 2020
DOCU/CITIZEN as a way to support your favorite festival
Interviews
05 February 2020
Cinema Congress in Australia. Cybernetics and the Other Continent
DOCU/BLOG
16 October 2019
Cinema Congress in Australia. Cybernetics and the Other Continent
DOCU/BLOG
16 October 2019
Fighting for Cinemas
DOCU/BLOG
27 February 2019
Fighting for Cinemas
We invite everyone to the discussion about how activists reclaim public spaces in different ways.
DOCU/BLOG
27 February 2019
Oleksiy Sai: “In complete silence, I start losing my mind”
Interviews
20 February 2019
Oleksiy Sai: “In complete silence, I start losing my mind”
Interviews
20 February 2019
Doc Preview: Why is it important to show unfinished films?
DOCU/BLOG
16 January 2019
Doc Preview: Why is it important to show unfinished films?
Directors and coordinators of the industry platforms of international festivals share their thoughts about how this opportunity could be useful for directors and producers, and how this format has been implemented abroad
DOCU/BLOG
16 January 2019
Traveling Docudays UA-2018: Summing it up
DOCU/BLOG
21 December 2018
Traveling Docudays UA-2018: Summing it up
Between October and December 2018, the residents of more than 200 towns and cities in 22 regions of Ukraine had the opportunity to watch and discuss documentary films from this year’s Traveling Docudays UA program, and to participate in the Festival’s human rights events.
DOCU/BLOG
21 December 2018
“The challenge for a filmmaker at the moment is how to access a fast changing market”
Interviews
25 October 2018
“The challenge for a filmmaker at the moment is how to access a fast changing market”
This year, Docudays UA hosts the Global Short Docs Forum! Read more about that in the interview with Flora Gregory, the director of the GSDF
Interviews
25 October 2018
Seven Special Places to See Ukraine
DOCU/BLOG
01 October 2018
Seven Special Places to See Ukraine
Read about what’s special and important about the locations where this year’s See Ukraine is going to take place in our blog!
DOCU/BLOG
01 October 2018
EXPERIENCE. “It was my planet”
DOCU/BLOG
07 August 2018
EXPERIENCE. “It was my planet”
We offer you to read the second blog post about the experience of documentary filmmakers
DOCU/BLOG
07 August 2018
EXPERIENCE. Films Need a Community
DOCU/BLOG
12 July 2018
EXPERIENCE. Films Need a Community
We offer you to read a series of blog entries by documentary filmmakers about their experiences of participation in the Festival’s competitions
DOCU/BLOG
12 July 2018
DOCU/HIT: Four Cities and Three Stories That Became International Festival Favorites
DOCU/BLOG
28 June 2018
DOCU/HIT: Four Cities and Three Stories That Became International Festival Favorites
This year’s DOCU/HIT tour around Ukrainian cities started immediately after the March festival in Kyiv and ended last week with an open-air screening in Odesa. Four cities, five big screens and the three most powerful films of the Docudays UA 2018
DOCU/BLOG
28 June 2018
DOCS TO GO! How the Industry Platform of the Krakow Film Festival Works
DOCU/BLOG
19 June 2018
DOCS TO GO! How the Industry Platform of the Krakow Film Festival Works
How do Polish industry platforms help filmmakers finish their work? How do documentary filmmakers themselves work with editing and the “skeleton” of the future story? In her blog, the Docudays UA program coordinator Darya Bassel shares her experience of attending DOC LAB POLAND
DOCU/BLOG
19 June 2018
Submergence. Seven days under the tension of documentary cinema
DOCU/BLOG
05 April 2018
Submergence. Seven days under the tension of documentary cinema
Tamaz Ablotiya, Docudays UA intern from the Republic of Abkhazia, tells in his blog about about the festival films he has seen that have immersed him into the depths of the most painful wounds of society
DOCU/BLOG
05 April 2018
Ramona S. Diaz: “The stories from the Philippines resonate within me”
Interviews
28 March 2018
Ramona S. Diaz: “The stories from the Philippines resonate within me”
This year’s DOCU/HITS program includes Motherland by Ramona S. Diaz, which portrays the turbulent routine at a maternity clinic in Manila, Philippines.
Interviews
28 March 2018
Arunas Matelis: “There used to be censorship in cinema, and now there’s commerce”
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27 March 2018
Arunas Matelis: “There used to be censorship in cinema, and now there’s commerce”
This year, the jury which determines the winners of the competition programmes DOCU/SHORT and DOCU/UKRAINE will include the Lithuanian director Arunas Matelis. His short documentaries have been presented in film festivals in Cannes, Rotterdam and Oberhausen. His feature-lengths works have won many of the top awards. In particular, his debut, Before Flying Back to Earth (2005) received an award from the Directors’ Guild of America, becoming only the second Eastern European film in history to win this award.
Interviews
27 March 2018
Emmanuel Gras: “I don’t make films with a very clear message”
Interviews
27 March 2018
Emmanuel Gras: “I don’t make films with a very clear message”
This year, our selection of the prominent documentaries which have already graced the screens of the world’s major festivals and become hits includes the winner of the Cannes Critics’ Week Grand Prize, the poetic film Makala by the French director Emmanuel Gras
Interviews
27 March 2018
Luciano Barisone: Cinema should reveal the ‘invisible’ through the ‘visible’
Interviews
26 March 2018
Luciano Barisone: Cinema should reveal the ‘invisible’ through the ‘visible’
Luciano Barisone is a member of the jury which will select the winner of the international full-length film competition in the DOCU/LIFE category. This former cinema critic is a festival official with more than twenty years of experience, who for seven years now has been the chairman of one of the oldest documentary film festivals in the world, the Visions du Réel in Nyon, Switzerland.
Interviews
26 March 2018
Håvard Bustnes: “It was like a battle between me and them”
Interviews
25 March 2018
Håvard Bustnes: “It was like a battle between me and them”
The director of Golden Dawn Girls, a film about the far-right Greek political party, speaks about his relationship with the film’s protagonists and about their reaction to the film
Interviews
25 March 2018
Some things have to be said
DOCU/BLOG
23 March 2018
Some things have to be said
About different and resolute female voices at this year’s Docudays film programme Simple Women’s Equality
DOCU/BLOG
23 March 2018
«CIVIL PITCH School»
DOCU/BLOG
20 March 2018
«CIVIL PITCH School»
The teams of Ukrainian documentary filmmakers and activists tell about 1st workshop
DOCU/BLOG
20 March 2018
Welcome the Opening Movie of the Festival
Interviews
06 March 2018
Welcome the Opening Movie of the Festival
This year’s Docudays UA festival opens with documentary A Woman Captured by Bernadett Tuza-Ritter.
Interviews
06 March 2018
Ukrainian Leninfall: Photo Exhibition and Discussion
DOCU/BLOG
02 March 2018
Ukrainian Leninfall: Photo Exhibition and Discussion
The Photography Exhibition ‘Looking for Lenin’ by Niels Ackermann and Sébastien Gobert can be seen between March 17 and April 1 in the Triptych: Global Arts Workshop gallery
DOCU/BLOG
02 March 2018
Between Heaven And Earth: The New Ukrainian Cinema
DOCU/BLOG
28 February 2018
Between Heaven And Earth: The New Ukrainian Cinema
Film critic Ihor Hrabovych tells about the DOCU/UKRAINE full-length competition programme
DOCU/BLOG
28 February 2018
Traveling Docudays UA-2017: summing it up
DOCU/BLOG
24 December 2017
Traveling Docudays UA-2017: summing it up
DOCU/BLOG
24 December 2017
"Destruction of Modernist Heritage is related to the values it promotes"
Interviews
19 December 2017
"Destruction of Modernist Heritage is related to the values it promotes"
Interviews
19 December 2017
DOCU/HIT: Fourteen Cinema Halls and the Mighty Eight of Films
DOCU/BLOG
25 September 2017
DOCU/HIT: Fourteen Cinema Halls and the Mighty Eight of Films
DOCU/BLOG
25 September 2017
SEE UKRAINE in Spain: cinema, art, and a little bit siestas
DOCU/BLOG
13 September 2017
SEE UKRAINE in Spain: cinema, art, and a little bit siestas
In the first days of September, the festival SEE UKRAINE: DOCUDAYS UA ON TOUR arrived in Madrid
DOCU/BLOG
13 September 2017
"The Cherkasy Project": From Romanticism to Cinema Through a Store
DOCU/BLOG
13 July 2017
"The Cherkasy Project": From Romanticism to Cinema Through a Store
On July 6, Docudays UA visited the City Workshop in Cherkasy with the film Audience Emancipated: The Struggle for the Emek Movie Theater. This year, the film was screened as a part of the urbanist film section, The City Image
DOCU/BLOG
13 July 2017
CANactions Festival: Architecture, Cinema and Freedom
DOCU/BLOG
09 June 2017
CANactions Festival: Architecture, Cinema and Freedom
DOCU/BLOG
09 June 2017
Struggling for New Horizons. Visions du Réel International Film Festival
DOCU/BLOG
04 May 2017
Struggling for New Horizons. Visions du Réel International Film Festival
DOCU/BLOG
04 May 2017
Jonathan Littell: "It’s Hard To Stop The Wave Of Political Violence"
Interviews
27 March 2017
Jonathan Littell: "It’s Hard To Stop The Wave Of Political Violence"
Interviews
27 March 2017
Igor Blaževič: "One World has been able to listen to what films are saying"
Interviews
27 March 2017
Igor Blaževič: "One World has been able to listen to what films are saying"
Interviews
27 March 2017
Audrius Stonis: “You Have To Create Silence"
Interviews
26 March 2017
Audrius Stonis: “You Have To Create Silence"
Interviews
26 March 2017
All That Jazz
Interviews
26 March 2017
All That Jazz
Interviews
26 March 2017
Is Nothing Always Something?
Interviews
25 March 2017
Is Nothing Always Something?
Interviews
25 March 2017
“Documentary films in our country rely on the authors’ enthusiasm”
Interviews
02 February 2017
“Documentary films in our country rely on the authors’ enthusiasm”
DOCU/PRO platform starts to work on Docudays UA this year. Docudays UA programmers Gennady Kofman and Olga Birzul are talk, why Ukrainian documentaries need their own industrial section
Interviews
02 February 2017
Thin Red Line
DOCU/BLOG
17 November 2016
Thin Red Line
DOCU/BLOG
17 November 2016
DOCU/HІТ: Seven cities, eight cinema halls and thousands of viewers
DOCU/BLOG
30 September 2016
DOCU/HІТ: Seven cities, eight cinema halls and thousands of viewers
Read our blog to find out, how did Ukrainian DOCU/HІТ journey go, and why documentary films should conquer wide screens now more than ever
DOCU/BLOG
30 September 2016
The ambivalence of modernity and possibilities for synchronization
DOCU/BLOG
06 September 2016
The ambivalence of modernity and possibilities for synchronization
DOCU/BLOG
06 September 2016
Film Festival Anatomy: British diagnostic methods
DOCU/BLOG
11 August 2016
Film Festival Anatomy: British diagnostic methods
DOCU/BLOG
11 August 2016
"See Ukraine" in Milan: Exercises for memory
DOCU/BLOG
01 August 2016
"See Ukraine" in Milan: Exercises for memory
See Ukraine: Docudays UA on tour european tour has already visited Paris, Athens and just came back from Milan where the festival lasted from 12 to 30 of July. Yaryna Grusha, our Italian project coordinator, tells about the reception of Ukrainian documentary films and photographs in Milan.
DOCU/BLOG
01 August 2016
DocWorks: coming up to the film industry orbit
Interviews
21 April 2016
DocWorks: coming up to the film industry orbit
About the new project for young film directors DocWorks: UA/UK tell us one of the curators, Anna Parker
Interviews
21 April 2016
Bukovsky vs. Kairišs: “Paradise is not always a place where you can live”
Interviews
29 March 2016
Bukovsky vs. Kairišs: “Paradise is not always a place where you can live”
We invited two famous directors - Serhiy Bukowskiy and Viesturs Kairish, the director of the film “Invisible city”, to talk
Interviews
29 March 2016
Pamela Cohn: “It's important to allow yourself to be bored”
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27 March 2016
Pamela Cohn: “It's important to allow yourself to be bored”
The American filmmaker, writer, and curator Pamela Cohn at Docudays UA will judge the DOCU/LIFE competition and present a program of films from the True/False festival
Interviews
27 March 2016
Wojciech Staroń: “The only ‘director’ is God”
Interviews
26 March 2016
Wojciech Staroń: “The only ‘director’ is God”
This year DOCU/BEST presents film "Brothers"
Interviews
26 March 2016
Film director Serhiy Lysenko: «We are strangers to the world»
Interviews
16 February 2016
Film director Serhiy Lysenko: «We are strangers to the world»
Serhiy Lysenko, the director of the documentary project on who and how should watch "The Maidan encyclopaedia"
Interviews
16 February 2016
Tue Steen Muller on Documentary Addiction
Interviews
10 February 2016
Tue Steen Muller on Documentary Addiction
Interviews
10 February 2016
First encounter with aliens. Viewers' comments
DOCU/BLOG
First encounter with aliens. Viewers' comments
DOCU/BLOG
Serhiy Bukovsky: The system is still very soviet
Interviews
Serhiy Bukovsky: The system is still very soviet
On Saturday, 16 May at London’s Frontline Club there will be discussions with Serhiy Bukovsky, the famous ukrainian documentalist. Michael Stewart, the founder of Open City Docs Festival (UK) and Darya Bassel, program coordinator of Docudays UA spoke with the director about early ukrainian documentary and changes in approach to it comparing to contemporary times.
Interviews
Askold Kurov: It is patriotic to press on the sore points of your country
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Askold Kurov: It is patriotic to press on the sore points of your country
Askold Kurov, a provocative Russian documentary maker, will teach a class at the Festival.
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Film critics talk about documentary
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Film critics talk about documentary
Andrei Rus is a Romanian film critic and cinema theorist and is now a member of the Docu / Short jury. In his conversation with Stanislav Bityutsky, the chief editor of Cineticle, he talks about his vision of film criticism, documentary films, and considers his favorite movie genre, the diary, about which he will speak more during his workshop.
Interviews
About political films and documentary activism: Ezra Winton and Svetla Turnin
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About political films and documentary activism: Ezra Winton and Svetla Turnin
On 23th of March meet Ezra Winton and Svetla Turnin at their workshop on Docudays UA.
Interviews
Melissa Lindgren: I have the best job in the world!
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Melissa Lindgren: I have the best job in the world!
Melissa Lindgren a member of DOCU/LIFE jury about documentary festival movement in Sweden and her expectations at Docudays UA.
Interviews
Astra Film Festival: resume and impressions
DOCU/BLOG
Astra Film Festival: resume and impressions
In Romania came to an end Astra Film Festival. Ukrainian films received two awards there and Docudays UA program coordinator, Darya Bassel, who worked as a jury, - metaphysical experience from watching the festival program.
DOCU/BLOG
Volodymyr Yavorskyi: Showing gore on screen is easy
Interviews
Volodymyr Yavorskyi: Showing gore on screen is easy
The festival’s selection was shown last year in Minsk. For Grodno, it was for the first time. We used the occasion to talk to Volodymyr Yavorskyi, one of the festival’s coordinators and founders.
Interviews
Alyona Polunina: “I don’t settle my accounts through the medium of art”
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Alyona Polunina: “I don’t settle my accounts through the medium of art”
The screening of Nepal Forever will close the DOCU/BEST program on March 27 at 3 pm in Red Hall of Cinema House.
Interviews
ARTDOCFEST PRESENTS. “The most important thing is to understand your audience”
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ARTDOCFEST PRESENTS. “The most important thing is to understand your audience”
This year, the famous Russian film critic, programming director of Russian ArtDocFest Victoria Belopolskaya is a juror of the DOCU/SHORT competition at the Docudays UA Film Festival.
Interviews
SPECIAL EVENT: Distinctive films by Boric Mitić
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SPECIAL EVENT: Distinctive films by Boric Mitić
Screening of films Pretty Dyana and Goodbye, How Are You? will be followed by Q&A with the director: March 22, 9 p.m., Cinema House, Blue Hall.
Interviews
Faces of Freedom. The Maidan
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Faces of Freedom. The Maidan
Opening of the exhibition: March 23, 6 pm, Camera Gallery (vul. Prorizna, 22).
Interviews
Juri Rechinsky: "It’s very difficult not to go back to my characters"
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Juri Rechinsky: "It’s very difficult not to go back to my characters"
A few days after Juri Rechinsky won the documentary competition of the Sarajevo Film Festival we contacted him via Skype...
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Audrius Stonys: "Images are always less aggressive than words"
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Audrius Stonys: "Images are always less aggressive than words"
The second part of an interview with a DOCU/LIFE jury member.
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Oleksandr Balahura: “We are watching both a film and a theatrical play at once”
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Oleksandr Balahura: “We are watching both a film and a theatrical play at once”
A DOCU/SHORY jury member tells about his latest film Life Span of the Object in Frame
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Audrius Stonys: “I wish to film people who are independent of the system”
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Audrius Stonys: “I wish to film people who are independent of the system”
The first part of an interview with a DOCU/LIFE jury member who will also present his own retrospective at the festival.
Interviews
Roman Bondarchuk: “The feeling of a Roma camp is a state of lethargic sleep”
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Roman Bondarchuk: “The feeling of a Roma camp is a state of lethargic sleep”
A Ukrainian director shares his experience working on a documentary about successful Roma.
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Tue Steen Müller: “The fly on the wall is dead”
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Tue Steen Müller: “The fly on the wall is dead”
A DOCU/LIFE jury member tells about the best ways to submit the films to documentary film festivals.
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Marianna Kaat: “People are understanding the world better"
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Marianna Kaat: “People are understanding the world better"
A DOCU/SHORT jury member tells about fundraising mechanisms for documentary films and the channels for distribution.
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Docudays UA: we don’t want our audience to be just passive viewers
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Docudays UA: we don’t want our audience to be just passive viewers
PR-director and member of Docudays UA Selection Committee Dar’ya Averchenko, talks about this year's festival specials.
Interviews
The Term: documentary news as a principle
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The Term: documentary news as a principle
Interviews