22 INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL
6 — 13
June 2025
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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