23 INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL
 5 — 12 
June 2026
Lesia Lytvynova: “I can’t respect those who say they weren’t born for something.”
Interviews
Lesia Lytvynova: “I can’t respect those who say they weren’t born for something.”
Interviews
“Most importantly, in a critical situation, you have to act”: A conversation with director Andrii Lysetskyi
Interviews
“Most importantly, in a critical situation, you have to act”: A conversation with director Andrii Lysetskyi
Interviews
Non-Competition Programme 'UKRAINE WAR ARCHIVE/FRAGMENTS OF RESISTANCE' at the 23rd Docudays UA
Programme Review
Docudays UA 2026: Lithuanian Documentary Focus
Programme Review
Docudays UA 2026: Lithuanian Documentary Focus
Programme Review
Coming of Age in the Social Media Era: DOCU/YOUTH 2026
Programme Review
Coming of Age in the Social Media Era: DOCU/YOUTH 2026
Programme Review
Human Rights as the Main Guiding Principle: A Guide to RIGHTS NOW! Events
Programme Review
Human Rights as the Main Guiding Principle: A Guide to RIGHTS NOW! Events
Programme Review
10 Films Exploring the World’s Vulnerability: Docudays UA 2026 International Competition
Programme Review
Important Pillars of the State: Coffee with Human Rights Defenders at the 23rd Docudays UA
Programme Review
Important Pillars of the State: Coffee with Human Rights Defenders at the 23rd Docudays UA
Programme Review
‘A Drama That’s Hard to Define’: A Conversation with Director Maryna Nikolcheva
Interviews
‘A Drama That’s Hard to Define’: A Conversation with Director Maryna Nikolcheva
Interviews
Healing Through Expression: DOCU/ART 2026
Programme Review
Healing Through Expression: DOCU/ART 2026
Programme Review
The Human Library 2026 at Docudays UA: Stories about Resilience, Believing in Yourself, and Caring
Programme Review
The Human Library 2026 at Docudays UA: Stories about Resilience, Believing in Yourself, and Caring
Programme Review
“I think the ability to see beauty is a form of inner resistance to darkness”: Dmytro Dokunov, and Oleksandr Tkachenko
Interviews
“I think the ability to see beauty is a form of inner resistance to darkness”: Dmytro Dokunov, and Oleksandr Tkachenko
Interviews
Understanding Ourselves during the War: Docudays UA Launches the RIGHTS NOW! Open-air Lecture Series!
Programme Review
Understanding Ourselves during the War: Docudays UA Launches the RIGHTS NOW! Open-air Lecture Series!
Programme Review
Strong Structures in Fragile Times: A Special Programme on Ukrainian Society for the 23rd Docudays UA
Programme Review
Strong Structures in Fragile Times: A Special Programme on Ukrainian Society for the 23rd Docudays UA
Programme Review
“Together We Captured a Snapshot of Present-Day Reality”: A Conversation with Director Olga Chernykh
Interviews
“Together We Captured a Snapshot of Present-Day Reality”: A Conversation with Director Olga Chernykh
Interviews
Docudays UA joins the Doc Around Europe network as a guest festival!
Cultural Diplomacy
Docudays UA joins the Doc Around Europe network as a guest festival!
Cultural Diplomacy
Don’t Ask Me If I Killed: A Conversation with Filmmaker and Servicewoman Helena Maksyom
Interviews
Don’t Ask Me If I Killed: A Conversation with Filmmaker and Servicewoman Helena Maksyom
Interviews
DOCU/UKRAINE 2026: Resistance in Focus Through the Documentary Lens
Programme Review
Right to the Truth: A Retrospective of Ukrainian Documentary Film of the Late 1980s and 1990s, presented in partnership with the Dovzhenko Centre and the 23rd Docudays UA
Programme Review
DOCU/SHORT 2026: 13 films from 13 countries around the world
Programme Review
Mikael Opstrup: “Assembling a coherent whole out of uncontrollable chaos.”
Interviews
Mikael Opstrup: “Assembling a coherent whole out of uncontrollable chaos.”
Interviews
“The most interesting things happen in the gaps”: An interview with DOCU/WORLD jury member, cultural researcher and writer Kateryna Botanova
Interviews
How to defend the free world? The discussion on democracy with Volodymyr Yermolenko and Maksym Butkevych
Lecture summary
How to defend the free world? The discussion on democracy with Volodymyr Yermolenko and Maksym Butkevych
Lecture summary
Watch online at DOCUSPACE throughout the month: Long Live Rare Resources!
Programme Review
A Special Screening and Discussion with Docudays UA and PEN Ukraine
Programme Review
A Special Screening and Discussion with Docudays UA and PEN Ukraine
Programme Review
Special Screening Long Live Rare Resources! by Docudays UA at Zhovten Cinema
Programme Review
Special Screening Long Live Rare Resources! by Docudays UA at Zhovten Cinema
Programme Review
Resistance as a Universal Task: A Ukrainian Focus in Chile
Cultural Diplomacy
Resistance as a Universal Task: A Ukrainian Focus in Chile
Cultural Diplomacy
Zaporizhzhia — Uzhhorod — Dnipro — Poltava — Lviv — Ternopil: Travel Notes from the 22nd Traveling Docudays UA
DOCU/BLOG
Zaporizhzhia — Uzhhorod — Dnipro — Poltava — Lviv — Ternopil: Travel Notes from the 22nd Traveling Docudays UA
DOCU/BLOG
Between Colonies and Trending Wars: My Week at Porto/Post/Doc
Cultural Diplomacy
IDFA-38: Silent Flood, Our Shrapnel, and a Few Stories Not Our Own
DOCU/BLOG
IDFA-38: Silent Flood, Our Shrapnel, and a Few Stories Not Our Own
DOCU/BLOG
For the first time in Chile: the special program of Ukrainian films “Docudays UA Window” at the FIDOCS Festival
Cultural Diplomacy
For the first time in Chile: the special program of Ukrainian films “Docudays UA Window” at the FIDOCS Festival
Cultural Diplomacy
From the Czech Republic to Chile: the Docudays UA Team’s Festival Calendar
Cultural Diplomacy
From the Czech Republic to Chile: the Docudays UA Team’s Festival Calendar
Cultural Diplomacy
“Laughter Therapy”: How Irishman Gar O'Rourke made a film about a Ukrainian sanatorium during the war
Interviews
“Laughter Therapy”: How Irishman Gar O'Rourke made a film about a Ukrainian sanatorium during the war
Interviews
In search of a Rare Resource: The 22nd Travelling Docudays UA Goes Sets Off Across Ukraine
Programme Review
In search of a Rare Resource: The 22nd Travelling Docudays UA Goes Sets Off Across Ukraine
Programme Review
Docudays NGO at the “All Together” festival: screenings and activities for children and teenagers
Programme Review
Docudays NGO at the “All Together” festival: screenings and activities for children and teenagers
Programme Review
Watch on DOCUSPACE starting in July: three films and human rights discussions
Programme Review
17 Docudays UA events now available for free on DOCUSPACE online cinema
Programme Review
17 Docudays UA events now available for free on DOCUSPACE online cinema
Programme Review
Docudays UA has begun to digitise the Catalogues of Ukrainian Documentary Films and presents the online publication of …
Cultural Diplomacy
Docudays UA has begun to digitise the Catalogues of Ukrainian Documentary Films and presents the online publication of the 2019 edition
Cultural Diplomacy
Working with memory, unique acoustics, and dialogue: interviews with the organizers and mentors of the LAB
Interviews
Working with memory, unique acoustics, and dialogue: interviews with the organizers and mentors of the LAB
Interviews
How Much Sleep Does the Docudays UA Communications Team Get, or Come Get a Hug at the Festival!
Interviews
How Much Sleep Does the Docudays UA Communications Team Get, or Come Get a Hug at the Festival!
Interviews
The Voices of Ukrainian Documentary: Docudays UA presents a new edition of the Electronic Catalogue
Cultural Diplomacy
The Voices of Ukrainian Documentary: Docudays UA presents a new edition of the Electronic Catalogue
Cultural Diplomacy
Topical Issues for the Ukrainian Film Community: DOCU/CLASS 2025 Workshop Programme
Programme Review
Topical Issues for the Ukrainian Film Community: DOCU/CLASS 2025 Workshop Programme
Programme Review
Watch online on DOCUSPACE during the 22nd Docudays UA
Programme Review
Serra Civil: "Our driving force is simple: care for the people behind important stories, not just the stories them…
Interviews
Serra Civil: "Our driving force is simple: care for the people behind important stories, not just the stories themselves."
Interviews
Where Shadows Gleam — Chilean Cinema as Poetic Resistance
Programme Review
Where Shadows Gleam — Chilean Cinema as Poetic Resistance
Programme Review
Between human rights protection and documentary: the non-competition programme UKRAINE WAR ARCHIVE/EVIDENCE at 22 Docud…
Programme Review
Between human rights protection and documentary: the non-competition programme UKRAINE WAR ARCHIVE/EVIDENCE at 22 Docudays UA
Programme Review
Happiness as the Rarest Resource: The Opening and Closing Films of the 22nd Docudays UA
Programme Review
DOCU/WORLD: Films about the triumph of good
Programme Review
Where can you find the Rare Resource?
Programme Review
Where can you find the Rare Resource?
Programme Review
Resilience Rooted in Values: the RIGHTS NOW! 2025 Programme
Programme Review
Resilience Rooted in Values: the RIGHTS NOW! 2025 Programme
Programme Review
DOCU/CAMP at the 22nd Docudays UA: Art, Activities, and Film Screenings for Children!
Programme Review
DOCU/CAMP at the 22nd Docudays UA: Art, Activities, and Film Screenings for Children!
Programme Review
Ukraine War Archive Viewing Room
Programme Review
Ukraine War Archive Viewing Room
Programme Review
The Power of Collaboration: What to Expect from Coffee with Human Rights Defenders at the 22nd Docudays UA
Programme Review
The Power of Collaboration: What to Expect from Coffee with Human Rights Defenders at the 22nd Docudays UA
Programme Review
The Value of Human Potential: Human Library 2025 at Docudays UA
Programme Review
The Value of Human Potential: Human Library 2025 at Docudays UA
Programme Review
Archive, Memory, and Heritage. Interdisciplinary Art Program DOCU/SYNTHESIS-2025
Programme Review
Archive, Memory, and Heritage. Interdisciplinary Art Program DOCU/SYNTHESIS-2025
Programme Review
Special Events 2025: An Impulse to act!
Programme Review
Special Events 2025: An Impulse to act!
Programme Review
DOCU/BEST 2025: A Journey Through Pain and the Pursuit of Happiness
Programme Review
DOCU/BEST 2025: A Journey Through Pain and the Pursuit of Happiness
Programme Review
CHILEAN VISIONS: FIDOCS FOCUS at the 22nd Docudays UA
Programme Review
Docs4Teens at the 22nd Docudays UA: The Pursuit Of Freedom in Films for Teenagers
Programme Review
A Glimpse of ARTE: Special programme of the 22nd Docudays UA
Programme Review
A Glimpse of ARTE: Special programme of the 22nd Docudays UA
Programme Review
DOCU/YOUTH 2025: NEVER GIVE UP
Programme Review
DOCU/YOUTH 2025: NEVER GIVE UP
Programme Review
DOCU/ART 2025: The Art of Memory and Reevaluating History
Programme Review
DOCU/ART 2025: The Art of Memory and Reevaluating History
Programme Review
A stash of cinephile delight: DOCU/SHORT 2025
Programme Review
On struggle and subjectivity: the DOCU/UKRAINE 2025 program
Programme Review
Captivating animation, games and workshops for the youngest viewers at the 22nd Docudays UA!
Programme Review
Captivating animation, games and workshops for the youngest viewers at the 22nd Docudays UA!
Programme Review
Maksym Butkevych: "Where there is no possibility to create meaning, we slowly stop being human."
Interviews
Routes to Zhovten and a Cinephile Wishlist By the Docudays UA Communications Team
Interviews
“We dream of becoming unnecessary”: the Tribunal for Putin (T4P) initiative presents three-year report
Lecture summary
Building sustainable practices: LAB: DOCU/SYNTHESIS x Ukraine War Archive in a conversation with Oleksandra Nabieva
Interviews
Building sustainable practices: LAB: DOCU/SYNTHESIS x Ukraine War Archive in a conversation with Oleksandra Nabieva
Interviews
Are films the key to empathy? Discussion by Ukrainian and Slovak filmmakers in Košice
DOCU/BLOG
Are films the key to empathy? Discussion by Ukrainian and Slovak filmmakers in Košice
DOCU/BLOG
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