Awards

For the first time at the 21st Docudays UA, the film critics' jury will choose their favourite film in the national competition DOCU/UKRAINE. The winner will receive a special diploma from the organisation.

The Union of the Ukrainian Film Critics is a Ukrainian non-profit created in 2018 to associate Ukrainian film critics and encourage & develop cinema culture in Ukraine. The UUFC jury works at many Ukrainian film festivals and gives special filmmaking achievement awards.

The Union of the Ukrainian Film Critics' jury includes a film journalist and founder of the Documents cinema website Olena Korkodym, a film critic and author of film criticism for Gogol Media, LiRoom and SENSOR Ihor Kromf, a researcher at the Dovzhenko Centre as well as a film critic and cultural manager Aliona Penzii.

MAIN PRIZE

Fragments of IceMaria Stoianova / Ukraine, Norway / 2024 / 95'

For in-depth cinematic research of shared history through the lens of personal memory, and for daring to not only accept but also critically assess the experience of our parents.