Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival

The organizers of Docudays UA offer a deeper “reading” of the people surrounded by stereotypes

By Dmytro Desiateryk, The Day

Within the framework of the Docudays UA film festival, which has recently ended, the Living Library, a brainchild of the Danish NGO “Stop Violence,” started its work in Kyiv’s Cinema House. It aims at shattering the stereotypes concerning certain groups, sexual, racial, or religious minorities, which have been shaped in society. The form of the “reading” is a dialogue between the audience and representatives of certain minorities of social strata. READ MORE...

Docudays UA announces the winners

Docu/Life

Special Mention “For optimism”: “Autumn Gold” by Jan Tenhaven

Special Mention

“For incredible characters”: “Gangster Project” by Teboho Edkins

Main Prize

“Argentinean Lesson’ by Wojciech Staro

Attention! Changes in Timetable

There are some changes in the Festival Program today, on 26^th of March.

Greetings

Alla Tyutyunnyk, writer, screenwriter, human rights activist, member of Selection Board Docudays UA

Nobody of Ukrainian friends of mine asked me why the 9th Festival Docudays UA is dedicated to threat of authoritarianism and dictatorship in Ukraine. Especially after December 19, last year, when the Europeans did not signed the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU at the summit in Kyiv. And the main reason was not only the unprecedented harassment of opposition, but also the functioning of the court system neglecting democratic values. In our country political repressions have become a common practice – disappearance of journalists and beating defenders, harassment of independent media and demonstrations.

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Andriy Matrosov award

Andriy Matrosov was an unusual person. Everything he did, he did with much creation and love.

Conception Docudays UA

conception

Win every day!
Because this world is not for recreation and entertainment. Every good deed brings you to victory! Over evil, injustice, indifference, violence - all ugly things that are in the world. Any victory, even the least, tempers and makes you stronger. So with all the festival team, at the top of our voices, we call: “Win every day!”

Our symbol is winner
This year we updated the logo of Docudays UA. Now our symbol is the weightlifter, strong, persistent and purposeful. Every day he lifts heavy weight - a sign of victory over self, over life circumstances - for any government, in any weather. Ukrainian filmmakers also lift their everyday “weight” over all adverse circumstances in the cinema. And Ukrainian human rights activists lift their everyday “weight” to establish human rights in Ukraine as well. Let’s raise our “weight” over all that is not really able to stop the true winner!

Why Docudays UA + street art. What does unite us?
We looked at the social space from a different point of view. We appreciate the dialogue with the viewer. Images of street art bear the emotional charge and concept load. Intriguing and forced to thinking. Street art is a reaction to current events in the life of the country and the world. This is author’s reflection. The things you will not find in museums. Here is the experiment with the medium. It is built on the freak of outlined images with the buildings’ surfaces. Here is placed and at the same time clash contrast images of art and urban space. Our scope is society, our territory - documentaries. We see the picture on the wall, the first reaction - interest, then we are eager to take aerosol and draw smile or add an important word, creating a new message. Docudays UA invites everybody to actions, invites to creative work, invites in cinemas to watch live non-format, important films that are never screen on TV or in the Internet.