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22 INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL
 6 — 13 
June 2025
DOCU/HIT: Fourteen Cinema Halls and the Mighty Eight of Films
DOCU/BLOG
25 September 2017
DOCU/HIT: Fourteen Cinema Halls and the Mighty Eight of Films
DOCU/BLOG
25 September 2017
SEE UKRAINE in Spain: cinema, art, and a little bit siestas
DOCU/BLOG
13 September 2017
SEE UKRAINE in Spain: cinema, art, and a little bit siestas
In the first days of September, the festival SEE UKRAINE: DOCUDAYS UA ON TOUR arrived in Madrid
DOCU/BLOG
13 September 2017
"The Cherkasy Project": From Romanticism to Cinema Through a Store
DOCU/BLOG
13 July 2017
"The Cherkasy Project": From Romanticism to Cinema Through a Store
On July 6, Docudays UA visited the City Workshop in Cherkasy with the film Audience Emancipated: The Struggle for the Emek Movie Theater. This year, the film was screened as a part of the urbanist film section, The City Image
DOCU/BLOG
13 July 2017
CANactions Festival: Architecture, Cinema and Freedom
DOCU/BLOG
09 June 2017
CANactions Festival: Architecture, Cinema and Freedom
DOCU/BLOG
09 June 2017
Struggling for New Horizons. Visions du Réel International Film Festival
DOCU/BLOG
04 May 2017
Struggling for New Horizons. Visions du Réel International Film Festival
DOCU/BLOG
04 May 2017
Jonathan Littell: "It’s Hard To Stop The Wave Of Political Violence"
Interviews
27 March 2017
Jonathan Littell: "It’s Hard To Stop The Wave Of Political Violence"
Interviews
27 March 2017
Igor Blaževič: "One World has been able to listen to what films are saying"
Interviews
27 March 2017
Igor Blaževič: "One World has been able to listen to what films are saying"
Interviews
27 March 2017
Audrius Stonis: “You Have To Create Silence"
Interviews
26 March 2017
Audrius Stonis: “You Have To Create Silence"
Interviews
26 March 2017
All That Jazz
Interviews
26 March 2017
All That Jazz
Interviews
26 March 2017
Is Nothing Always Something?
Interviews
25 March 2017
Is Nothing Always Something?
Interviews
25 March 2017
“Documentary films in our country rely on the authors’ enthusiasm”
Interviews
02 February 2017
“Documentary films in our country rely on the authors’ enthusiasm”
DOCU/PRO platform starts to work on Docudays UA this year. Docudays UA programmers Gennady Kofman and Olga Birzul are talk, why Ukrainian documentaries need their own industrial section
Interviews
02 February 2017
Thin Red Line
DOCU/BLOG
17 November 2016
Thin Red Line
DOCU/BLOG
17 November 2016
DOCU/HІТ: Seven cities, eight cinema halls and thousands of viewers
DOCU/BLOG
30 September 2016
DOCU/HІТ: Seven cities, eight cinema halls and thousands of viewers
Read our blog to find out, how did Ukrainian DOCU/HІТ journey go, and why documentary films should conquer wide screens now more than ever
DOCU/BLOG
30 September 2016
The ambivalence of modernity and possibilities for synchronization
DOCU/BLOG
06 September 2016
The ambivalence of modernity and possibilities for synchronization
DOCU/BLOG
06 September 2016
Film Festival Anatomy: British diagnostic methods
DOCU/BLOG
11 August 2016
Film Festival Anatomy: British diagnostic methods
DOCU/BLOG
11 August 2016
"See Ukraine" in Milan: Exercises for memory
DOCU/BLOG
01 August 2016
"See Ukraine" in Milan: Exercises for memory
See Ukraine: Docudays UA on tour european tour has already visited Paris, Athens and just came back from Milan where the festival lasted from 12 to 30 of July. Yaryna Grusha, our Italian project coordinator, tells about the reception of Ukrainian documentary films and photographs in Milan.
DOCU/BLOG
01 August 2016
DocWorks: coming up to the film industry orbit
Interviews
21 April 2016
DocWorks: coming up to the film industry orbit
About the new project for young film directors DocWorks: UA/UK tell us one of the curators, Anna Parker
Interviews
21 April 2016
Bukovsky vs. Kairišs: “Paradise is not always a place where you can live”
Interviews
29 March 2016
Bukovsky vs. Kairišs: “Paradise is not always a place where you can live”
We invited two famous directors - Serhiy Bukowskiy and Viesturs Kairish, the director of the film “Invisible city”, to talk
Interviews
29 March 2016
Pamela Cohn: “It's important to allow yourself to be bored”
Interviews
27 March 2016
Pamela Cohn: “It's important to allow yourself to be bored”
The American filmmaker, writer, and curator Pamela Cohn at Docudays UA will judge the DOCU/LIFE competition and present a program of films from the True/False festival
Interviews
27 March 2016
Wojciech Staroń: “The only ‘director’ is God”
Interviews
26 March 2016
Wojciech Staroń: “The only ‘director’ is God”
This year DOCU/BEST presents film "Brothers"
Interviews
26 March 2016
Film director Serhiy Lysenko: «We are strangers to the world»
Interviews
16 February 2016
Film director Serhiy Lysenko: «We are strangers to the world»
Serhiy Lysenko, the director of the documentary project on who and how should watch "The Maidan encyclopaedia"
Interviews
16 February 2016
Tue Steen Muller on Documentary Addiction
Interviews
10 February 2016
Tue Steen Muller on Documentary Addiction
Interviews
10 February 2016
First encounter with aliens. Viewers' comments
DOCU/BLOG
First encounter with aliens. Viewers' comments
DOCU/BLOG
Serhiy Bukovsky: The system is still very soviet
Interviews
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.
Interviews
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.
Interviews
Film critics talk about documentary
Interviews
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.
Interviews
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.
Interviews
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.
Interviews
Astra Film Festival: resume and impressions
DOCU/BLOG
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.
DOCU/BLOG
Volodymyr Yavorskyi: Showing gore on screen is easy
Interviews
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.
Interviews
Alyona Polunina: “I don’t settle my accounts through the medium of art”
Interviews
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.
Interviews
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.
Interviews
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.
Interviews
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).
Interviews
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...
Interviews
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.
Interviews
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
Interviews
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.
Interviews
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.
Interviews
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.
Interviews
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.
Interviews
The Term: documentary news as a principle
Interviews
The Term: documentary news as a principle
Interviews