22 INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL
6 — 13
June 2025
Ukrainian hearts in Germany: Darya Averchenko's notes from the UFFB and Dok.Leipzig film festivals
Cultural Diplomacy
Ukrainian hearts in Germany: Darya Averchenko's notes from the UFFB and Dok.Leipzig film festivals
Cultural Diplomacy
Believing, reacting, and reporting: how to protect children from sexual abuse on the Internet and make the digital spac…
Lecture summary
Believing, reacting, and reporting: how to protect children from sexual abuse on the Internet and make the digital space safer?
Lecture summary
Film programme of the 21st Travelling Docudays UA on DOCUSPACE
Programme Review
21st Travelling Docudays UA: 10 years of a three-day war that lasts for three centuries
Programme Review
21st Travelling Docudays UA: 10 years of a three-day war that lasts for three centuries
Programme Review
“Gdańsk — Stara Zburyivka — Yalta”: An essay by Darya Averchenko
Cultural Diplomacy
“Gdańsk — Stara Zburyivka — Yalta”: An essay by Darya Averchenko
Cultural Diplomacy
Playful adulthood: Docudays UA and DOCU/CLUB at the festival for children and teenagers
DOCU/BLOG
Special programme School DOCU/WEEK in the DOCUSPACE online cinema
Programme Review
Special programme School DOCU/WEEK in the DOCUSPACE online cinema
Programme Review
Docudays UA and DOCU/CLUB at the All Together Festival in September
Programme Review
Docudays UA and DOCU/CLUB at the All Together Festival in September
Programme Review
Russian propaganda is asserting itself at international film festivals
Cultural Diplomacy
“Don’t worry, we also have experience of living with generators.” Yulia Kovalenko’s notes from a trip to Kosovo
DOCU/BLOG
“Don’t worry, we also have experience of living with generators.” Yulia Kovalenko’s notes from a trip to Kosovo
DOCU/BLOG
New Electronic Catalogue of Ukrainian Documentary Films: View the edition
Cultural Diplomacy
New Electronic Catalogue of Ukrainian Documentary Films: View the edition
Cultural Diplomacy
Focus Ukraine in Kosovo: DokuFest programme by Docudays UA
Cultural Diplomacy
Focus Ukraine in Kosovo: DokuFest programme by Docudays UA
Cultural Diplomacy
DOCU/Ukraine: Understanding others. Overview by Kateryna Gornostai
Programme Review
DOCU/Ukraine: Understanding others. Overview by Kateryna Gornostai
Programme Review
DOCU/Synthesis. Volunteering, sound archives and solidarity
Interviews
DOCU/Synthesis. Volunteering, sound archives and solidarity
Interviews
Darya Bassel: “Documentary cinema speaks better to people about events happening right here and now”
Interviews
Darya Bassel: “Documentary cinema speaks better to people about events happening right here and now”
Interviews
Wayne Jordash: “If Ukraine is lost, then our children are going to live in a very dangerous world”
Interviews
Wayne Jordash: “If Ukraine is lost, then our children are going to live in a very dangerous world”
Interviews
Restore the focus: How the world premiere of Witnesses. Captivity Kills went at the Sheffield DocFest film festival
Cultural Diplomacy
Restore the focus: How the world premiere of Witnesses. Captivity Kills went at the Sheffield DocFest film festival
Cultural Diplomacy
DOCU/BEST: Ingenious paths to the audience’s hearts
Programme Review
Listening to absence: Sound archives of (non-)empty rooms
Programme Review
Listening to absence: Sound archives of (non-)empty rooms
Programme Review
Prism of Society: Taiwanese Documentaries Focus
Programme Review
Memory, archives, and spaces of the common: DOCU/SYNTHESIS Interdisciplinary Art Programme
Programme Review
Memory, archives, and spaces of the common: DOCU/SYNTHESIS Interdisciplinary Art Programme
Programme Review
Unlearned lessons of history, working with collective memory, and the new model of global security. Guide of the RIGHTS…
Programme Review
Unlearned lessons of history, working with collective memory, and the new model of global security. Guide of the RIGHTS NOW! Human Rights Programme
Programme Review
DOCU/WORLD: A geopolitical puzzle assembled with love
Programme Review
DOCU/YOUTH: Between Light and Dark
Programme Review
DOCU/YOUTH: Between Light and Dark
Programme Review
Ten years of the three-day war that has lasted for three centuries
Programme Review
DOCU/UKRAINE: from the personal to the common
Programme Review
DOCU/UKRAINE: from the personal to the common
Programme Review
DOCU/ART: Remembering the unknown is scary, but funny, but horrifying
Programme Review
DOCU/SHORT: 14 film stories from 8 countries
Programme Review
DOCU/SHORT: 14 film stories from 8 countries
Programme Review
How they celebrate at the frontline
Interviews
What was the RIGHTS NOW! human rights programme at the 20th Travelling Docudays UA
DOCU/BLOG
What was the RIGHTS NOW! human rights programme at the 20th Travelling Docudays UA
DOCU/BLOG
Warm Meetings of the Winter: Docudays in the Doc Alliance network
Cultural Diplomacy
Theory and the Practice of Context
Cultural Diplomacy
Theory and the Practice of Context
Cultural Diplomacy
IDFA 2023: Ukrainian Winners, the Russian Trace, and Tales from DocLab
Cultural Diplomacy
Archiving the War: How I studied the experience of German colleagues
DOCU/BLOG
Archiving the War: How I studied the experience of German colleagues
DOCU/BLOG
Open letter to IDFA
Cultural Diplomacy
Open letter to IDFA
Cultural Diplomacy
Communicate the most important things. From “samurai’s path” to deconstructing imperialism
Cultural Diplomacy
Communicate the most important things. From “samurai’s path” to deconstructing imperialism
Cultural Diplomacy
Heading to Dublin: War, Cinema, and Human Rights
Cultural Diplomacy
Heading to Dublin: War, Cinema, and Human Rights
Cultural Diplomacy
Documentary cinema as a driving force of advocacy campaigns
DOCU/BLOG
Documentary cinema as a driving force of advocacy campaigns
DOCU/BLOG
Marko Grba Singh: "I firmly believe in humanity"
Interviews
An exercise in humanity. The review of the DOCU/ART programme
Programme Review
DOCU/СLASS workshop: Building and protecting the future
Programme Review
DOCU/СLASS workshop: Building and protecting the future
Programme Review
Dreamy world of the DOCU/YOUTH programme
Programme Review
DOCU/SYNTHESIS interdisciplinary art programme: fragmented exhibition
Programme Review
DOCU/SHORT Ukraine: for better or for worse
Programme Review
"A critical look at cinema should be a basic skill." Olha Birzul about the Editing Transition programme
Interviews
"A critical look at cinema should be a basic skill." Olha Birzul about the Editing Transition programme
Interviews
DOCU/WORLD: a miracle of cinema
Programme Review
Special events of the anniversary 20th Docudays UA
Programme Review
Special events of the anniversary 20th Docudays UA
Programme Review
Image of the Future
Programme Review
Image of the Future
Programme Review
DOCU/ART: Thousands of images of the war and the future in a digital world
Programme Review
Human rights during the war and rebuilding: what will the RIGHTS NOW! programme be like
Programme Review
Human rights during the war and rebuilding: what will the RIGHTS NOW! programme be like
Programme Review
DOCU/SHORT UA: A different kind of pain in a shared body
Programme Review
Looking at images from the past: 5 films in the DOCU/UKRAINE programme
Programme Review
Looking at images from the past: 5 films in the DOCU/UKRAINE programme
Programme Review
Docudays UA x SUNNY BUNNY: Kokomo City
Programme Review
Docudays UA x SUNNY BUNNY: Kokomo City
Programme Review
Editing transition. Curated programme of Olga Birzul
Programme Review
Editing transition. Curated programme of Olga Birzul
Programme Review
Coming to Terms with the Overwhelming Experience. National Premieres of Civil Pitch 2.0 Films
Programme Review
Warm coming-of-age stories in the DOCU/YOUTH programme
Programme Review
Roman Bondarchuk: "Allow the rest of the world to identify with us"
DOCU/BLOG
Roman Bondarchuk: "Allow the rest of the world to identify with us"
DOCU/BLOG
The depth of truth. Aspects of covering the war.
Lecture summary
The depth of truth. Aspects of covering the war.
Lecture summary
Unconquered Kherson travels around the country
DOCU/BLOG
Unconquered Kherson travels around the country
DOCU/BLOG
DOCU/SYNTHESIS: Other species, agency, and means of expression
Programme Review
RIGHTS NOW! Human rights programme at the 19th Travelling Docudays UA
Programme Review
State of Emergency: Film Weekend Programme in Kyiv
Programme Review
Contexts, irony, and the figure of unity. The films of Spotlight on: Docudays UA 2022
Programme Review
Contexts, irony, and the figure of unity. The films of Spotlight on: Docudays UA 2022
Programme Review
"If we look at ourselves with a different set of eyes now, this is the decisive stage of the transformation that began in the broken experience of our parents."
Interviews
"Time is the privilege of a peaceful life." Ukrainian participants of Sheffield DocFest industry events talk about work in times of war
Interviews
DOCU/UKRAINE in Focus: Eva Dzhyshyashvili
Interviews
DOCU/UKRAINE in Focus: Oleksiy Radynsky
Interviews
DOCU/UKRAINE in Focus: Eva Neymann
Interviews
DOCU/UKRAINE in Focus: Dmytro Hreshko
Interviews
DOCU/UKRAINE: Inevitability of the Love of Life
Programme Review
The Future in the Past: Brand New World
Programme Review
Gesamtkunstwerk Glushkov: Art, Cybernetics, and Social Justice
Programme Review
The Humane on Both Sides of the Screen
Programme Review
Serhii Borodin: "Everybody’s looking for a magic pill for full recovery"
Interviews
Serhii Borodin: "Everybody’s looking for a magic pill for full recovery"
Interviews
Hybrid films of joy and tears in the DOCU/BEST and MASTERS programmes
Programme Review
Hybrid films of joy and tears in the DOCU/BEST and MASTERS programmes
Film critic Anna Datsiuk on DOCU/BEST and MASTERS programmes
Programme Review
DOCU/SHORT: News from around the world
Programme Review
DOCU/SHORT: News from around the world
Programme Review
Oleksandr Makhanets: “Amateur films enhance our view of the past”
Interviews
Oleksandr Makhanets: “Amateur films enhance our view of the past”
Interviews
Paths to Recovery from Death
Programme Review
Paths to Recovery from Death
Programme Review
Based on social media
Programme Review
Based on social media
How Anatolii Surma created cartoons which reveal the absurdity of modern communication
Programme Review
Serhiy Bukovsky’s memories of Borys Peter
Programme Review
Serhiy Bukovsky’s memories of Borys Peter
Programme Review
Agnieszka Holland: “It’s time for the movies to take a stand.”
Interviews
Scrolling the Pain of Others
Programme Review
Scrolling the Pain of Others
Read about DOCUART selection in a review by a film scholar and director Oleksandr Teliuk
Programme Review
DOCU/UKRAINE in Focus: Andrii Lysetskyi
Interviews
DOCU/UKRAINE in Focus: Andrii Lysetskyi
Interviews
5 verbs of the DOCU/YOUNG programme
Programme Review
5 verbs of the DOCU/YOUNG programme
Programme Review
Film Troubadours: Scotland and Ukraine
Programme Review
DOCU/BEST and MASTERS: films of well-being and strong empathy
Programme Review
DOCU/BEST and MASTERS: films of well-being and strong empathy
Programme Review
Krzysztof Kieślowski: a documentary biography
Programme Review
DOCU/UKRAINE in Focus: Irena Stetsenko
Interviews
DOCU/UKRAINE in Focus: Irena Stetsenko
Interviews
Borys Peter. Silent Pause
Interviews
Borys Peter. Silent Pause
We talked to Ihor Barba – a sound engineer and a teacher of Borys Peter - about the complexity and subtleties of working with sound in documentaries, cooperation and friendship with Borys.
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