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22 INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL
 6 — 13 
June 2025
Serhiy Bukovsky: The system is still very soviet
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Serhiy Bukovsky: The system is still very soviet
On Saturday, 16 May at London’s Frontline Club there will be discussions with Serhiy Bukovsky, the famous ukrainian documentalist. Michael Stewart, the founder of Open City Docs Festival (UK) and Darya Bassel, program coordinator of Docudays UA spoke with the director about early ukrainian documentary and changes in approach to it comparing to contemporary times.
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Askold Kurov: It is patriotic to press on the sore points of your country
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Askold Kurov: It is patriotic to press on the sore points of your country
Askold Kurov, a provocative Russian documentary maker, will teach a class at the Festival.
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Film critics talk about documentary
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Film critics talk about documentary
Andrei Rus is a Romanian film critic and cinema theorist and is now a member of the Docu / Short jury. In his conversation with Stanislav Bityutsky, the chief editor of Cineticle, he talks about his vision of film criticism, documentary films, and considers his favorite movie genre, the diary, about which he will speak more during his workshop.
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About political films and documentary activism: Ezra Winton and Svetla Turnin
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About political films and documentary activism: Ezra Winton and Svetla Turnin
On 23th of March meet Ezra Winton and Svetla Turnin at their workshop on Docudays UA.
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Melissa Lindgren: I have the best job in the world!
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Melissa Lindgren: I have the best job in the world!
Melissa Lindgren a member of DOCU/LIFE jury about documentary festival movement in Sweden and her expectations at Docudays UA.
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Astra Film Festival: resume and impressions
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Astra Film Festival: resume and impressions
In Romania came to an end Astra Film Festival. Ukrainian films received two awards there and Docudays UA program coordinator, Darya Bassel, who worked as a jury, - metaphysical experience from watching the festival program.
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Volodymyr Yavorskyi: Showing gore on screen is easy
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Volodymyr Yavorskyi: Showing gore on screen is easy
The festival’s selection was shown last year in Minsk. For Grodno, it was for the first time. We used the occasion to talk to Volodymyr Yavorskyi, one of the festival’s coordinators and founders.
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Alyona Polunina: “I don’t settle my accounts through the medium of art”
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Alyona Polunina: “I don’t settle my accounts through the medium of art”
The screening of Nepal Forever will close the DOCU/BEST program on March 27 at 3 pm in Red Hall of Cinema House.
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ARTDOCFEST PRESENTS. “The most important thing is to understand your audience”
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ARTDOCFEST PRESENTS. “The most important thing is to understand your audience”
This year, the famous Russian film critic, programming director of Russian ArtDocFest Victoria Belopolskaya is a juror of the DOCU/SHORT competition at the Docudays UA Film Festival.
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SPECIAL EVENT: Distinctive films by Boric Mitić
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SPECIAL EVENT: Distinctive films by Boric Mitić
Screening of films Pretty Dyana and Goodbye, How Are You? will be followed by Q&A with the director: March 22, 9 p.m., Cinema House, Blue Hall.
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Faces of Freedom. The Maidan
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Faces of Freedom. The Maidan
Opening of the exhibition: March 23, 6 pm, Camera Gallery (vul. Prorizna, 22).
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Juri Rechinsky: "It’s very difficult not to go back to my characters"
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Juri Rechinsky: "It’s very difficult not to go back to my characters"
A few days after Juri Rechinsky won the documentary competition of the Sarajevo Film Festival we contacted him via Skype...
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Audrius Stonys: "Images are always less aggressive than words"
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Audrius Stonys: "Images are always less aggressive than words"
The second part of an interview with a DOCU/LIFE jury member.
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Oleksandr Balahura: “We are watching both a film and a theatrical play at once”
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Oleksandr Balahura: “We are watching both a film and a theatrical play at once”
A DOCU/SHORY jury member tells about his latest film Life Span of the Object in Frame
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Audrius Stonys: “I wish to film people who are independent of the system”
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Audrius Stonys: “I wish to film people who are independent of the system”
The first part of an interview with a DOCU/LIFE jury member who will also present his own retrospective at the festival.
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Roman Bondarchuk: “The feeling of a Roma camp is a state of lethargic sleep”
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Roman Bondarchuk: “The feeling of a Roma camp is a state of lethargic sleep”
A Ukrainian director shares his experience working on a documentary about successful Roma.
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Tue Steen Müller: “The fly on the wall is dead”
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Tue Steen Müller: “The fly on the wall is dead”
A DOCU/LIFE jury member tells about the best ways to submit the films to documentary film festivals.
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Marianna Kaat: “People are understanding the world better"
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Marianna Kaat: “People are understanding the world better"
A DOCU/SHORT jury member tells about fundraising mechanisms for documentary films and the channels for distribution.
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Docudays UA: we don’t want our audience to be just passive viewers
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Docudays UA: we don’t want our audience to be just passive viewers
PR-director and member of Docudays UA Selection Committee Dar’ya Averchenko, talks about this year's festival specials.
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The Term: documentary news as a principle
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The Term: documentary news as a principle
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