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Join the open online event on August 2! Tête-à-tête: Documentary Film as an Act of Democracy

31 July 2025
On August 2 at 18:00, the first discussion as part of the RIGHTS NOW! program will take place on the topic Documentary Film as an Act of Democracy. The Tête-à-tête will be held on DOCUSPACE online cinema. 

Can documentary film be a driving force for democratic processes? How can cameras stand up for democratic values and resist populism? Ahead of the online release of Your Life Without Me, the film selected by the student jury as the winner of the 22nd Docudays UA, film scholar and cultural manager Darya Levchenko will speak with director Anna Rubi about the nature and power of documentary cinema as well as about how attentiveness and empathy are becoming integral to participatory democracy and the fight for equal rights.


Conversation in English with Ukrainian translation.

Watch the film Your Life Without Me on docuspace.org until August 21.

The screenings and discussions are supported financially by the European Union and the Embassy of Sweden.
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