DOCU/CLASS 2018

The program of author’s master classes and lectures, as well as presentations of diverse documentary related initiatives, took place at the Docudays UA-2018.

20 December 2018

Creating the New Woman

The critic and well-known expert on Soviet Kulturfilm Barbara Wurm focused on one Soviet film To woman about woman from the State Archive of Ukraine, and discussed its specific features in the context of early Soviet film, as well as the social question - the new woman - who hereby remains unsolved. The event was moderated by Stanislav Menzelevskyi (of the Oleksandr Dovzhenko National Centre).

The right to history in documentary cinema

Is documentary cinema connected to reality? Where is the boundary between documentary cinema and propaganda? Where is the place of the documentary director in the system of coordinates between art and politics? These questions was discussed by film critics from the US, Denmark, Spain and Ukraine at the roundtable. Moderator: Daria Badyor, film critic and editor of the Culture section at LB.ua.