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Introducing the jury of the Ukrainian Film Critics of the 22nd Docudays UA

09 May 2025

We continue the tradition of cooperation with Ukrainian film critics, which was started last year. The UUFC’s 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.


Valerii Myrnyi

Ukrainian film critic at New Voice magazine, a journalist, radio host, producer, and Ukrainian Film Critics Union member.

Yaroslav Pidhora-Hviazdovskyi

Ukrainian journalist, film critic, and screenwriter. He has been published in over 60 magazines, newspapers, and online platforms and has more than 3,000 articles to his name. He also served as press attaché at the Ukrainian State Film Agency, head of the cinema section at SHO magazine, as well as editor-in-chief of Kino Digest and the Ukrainian edition of the international magazine Total Film. In 2018, he co-founded the Ukrainian Film Critics Union and the Ukrainian Film Critics Week festival, later contributing to creating the union’s Kinokolo award. Yaroslav is a member of the Ukrainian Film Critics Union, the Ukrainian Film Academy, and the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine. He currently serves as a captain in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

 

Ihor Kromf

Ukrainian film critic, a contributor to the media outlets Liroom (focused on new Ukrainian culture) and LB.UA, and host of the Director’s Cut podcast. He is a member of FIPRESCI and the Ukrainian Film Critics Union and serveson the the Kinokolo National Film Critics Award committee.

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