The soup with filmmakers

It’s lunch time. Wouldn’t you rather taste your quarantine soup in a nice company? We offer you a set menu of nine delicious soup talks during the festival week. Rules are simple. Firstly, eat soup. Secondly, stay not too serious about anything we discuss. Lastly, respect your soup mates and remember to watch documentary films. The audience-friendly navigation through the film program from soup to nuts. Join the conversation between filmmakers and festival moderators and watch their documentaries at DOCU/SPACE. 

 

SCHEDULE

 

April 25 | 1 p.m. – Made in China

April 26 | 1 p.m. – How not to be afraid: talk on solidarity

April 27 | 1 p.m. – Women talk shop

April 28 | 1 p.m. – Short but Sweet

April 29 | 1 p.m. – Re: Democracy…

April 30 | 1 p.m. – Kitchen talk: dehumanized

May 1 | 1 p.m. – Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Freedom

May 2 | 1 p.m. – Future in the past: death doesn't want me

May 3 | 1 p.m. – Quarantine is over. What’s next?

 

Moderators:


Svitlana Pryzynchuk

Founder of the Safran oriental studies publishing house

Svitlana Pryzynchuk lived in China for 6 years, where she studied the Chinese language, researched modern Chinese painting and got a master’s degree in art studies.

 

Kateryna Popravka

interpreter, translator

Born in Kyiv, graduated from Ukrainian Philology of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy; worked in the humanities and cultural sector since 2007. Started as a project and media manager; later turning into English-Ukrainian/Ukrainian -English translation and interpreting, film translation (subtitling, cc, dubbing), organizing and coordinating cultural events since 2008. Since 2014, she has also been active as a conference interpreter, while still involved at various stages of film production.

“I believe that storytelling is the most important of all arts, and documentaries have the power to tell the most fascinating and unbelievable, yet very humane and real, stories with ease. Stories and senses matter, now more than ever.” 

 

Maksym Butkevych

human rights advocate, journalist, coordinator at No Border project

Maksym Butkevych used to work for several Ukrainian TV channel as international news correspondent, for BBC World Service (Ukrainian Section) and for the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR). Currently, as a coordinator for No Borders Project non-governmental initiative, he deals with issues of right to asylum and refugee assistance in Ukraine; xenophobia, hate speech and other forms of discrimination in Ukrainian society. Maksym takes part in Docudays UA festival as a moderator for number of years now. He also consults Alliance for Public Health (Ukraine). Degrees in social philosophy (MA, Ukraine) and anthropology of development (MA, UK).

 

Angelina Kariakina

journalist, media manager (Suspilne), documentary enthusiast

Working as a journalist in printed, TV and online media for the past 12 years. Focuses on social issues, human rights and justice, reforms and conflict. Covered Maydan protests, Russian aggression, trials against Ukrainian political prisoners in Russia, the migration crisis in Europe. Editor-in-chief at Hromadske TV (2016-2020). Currently working as a journalist and media manager at Ukraine’s Public Broadcasting Company.

22 INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL
 6 — 13 
June 2025
Made in China
The soup with filmmakers
25 April 2020
Made in China
Duration
60’
The soup with filmmakers
25 April 2020
How not to be afraid: talk on solidarity
The soup with filmmakers
26 April 2020
How not to be afraid: talk on solidarity
Duration
60’
The soup with filmmakers
26 April 2020
Women talk shop
The soup with filmmakers
27 April 2020
Women talk shop
Duration
60’
The soup with filmmakers
27 April 2020
Short but Sweet
The soup with filmmakers
28 April 2020
Short but Sweet
Duration
60’
The soup with filmmakers
28 April 2020
Re: Democracy…
The soup with filmmakers
29 April 2020
Re: Democracy…
Duration
60’
The soup with filmmakers
29 April 2020
Kitchen talk: dehumanized
The soup with filmmakers
30 April 2020
Kitchen talk: dehumanized
Duration
60’
The soup with filmmakers
30 April 2020
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Freedom
The soup with filmmakers
01 May 2020
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Freedom
Duration
60’
The soup with filmmakers
01 May 2020
Future in the past: death doesn't want me
The soup with filmmakers
02 May 2020
Future in the past: death doesn't want me
Duration
60’
The soup with filmmakers
02 May 2020
Quarantine is over. What’s next?
The soup with filmmakers
03 May 2020
Quarantine is over. What’s next?
Duration
60’
The soup with filmmakers
03 May 2020