This year, Docudays UA joins forces with ARTE, the leading European public broadcaster, to celebrate four award winners. Each prize will be supported with a financial grant.
In particular, the winner of the Best Emerging Ukrainian Producer (short documentary) receives €1,000.
*Eligibility criteria:
The jury members are
Alexandre Marionneau and Fabrice Pauchalt.
Sequela / Alla Mitiukova / Ukraine / 2026 / 15'
For the first time ever, the European cultural platform ARTE created an award to support the difficult job of producing a short in non-fiction. The jury decided to show support and appreciation to a team that worked in a collective way, driven by an enthusiastic, bold, and very structured approach on all fronts essential to the production: financing, making, delivery, and distributing. The result is a short that has a world premiere in Docudays UA, and that is set on a path to more exposure, impact, and public conversations on a very important topic for Ukraine today: the return of veterans into the civil life.
For the commitment to their artistic vision, the collectiveness of the collaboration, the openness in sharing the hurdles along the way, the ambition for the distribution, and the possible next steps as producers: we hope that this award will help the journey of the team of producers of Sequela (Oleksii Yeroshenko, Kateryna Yahodka, and Alla Mitiukova, production company – Spoluka Films).
Nominees:
Sequela, producers Oleksii Yeroshenko, Kateryna Yagodka, Alla Mitiukova
The Ferry Flows, producers Leon Konstantinov, Zhora Papoian
A Normal Life, producer Oleksiy Oliyar, co-producer Sabina Asadova
Homecoming, producers Roman Khimei, Yarema Malashchuk
Ember, producers Ira Yeroshko
