The DOCU/UKRAINE National Competition: 5 films about memory, war and love.
The winners in the DOCU/UKRAINE competition will be chosen by:
Marko Grba Singh, filmmaker and Art Director of the BELDOCS International Documentary Film Festival in Belgrad;
Gediminas Andriukaitis, founder and director of Inconvenient Films; and
Olena Honcharuk, head of the Dovzhenko Centre Film Museum and winner of the competition for the position of the CEO of Dovzhenko Centre.
MAIN PRIZE
20 Days In Mariupol / Mstyslav Chernov / Ukraine / 2023 / 94’
Unprecedented document of the time and evidence of crime. But despite all the captured monstrosity and dehumanization the film leaves the viewer with a sense of forceful determination to keep resisting - because of the professional commitment and public service of the ordinary heroes in front and behind the camera.
SPECIAL MENTION
Fragile Memory / Igor Ivanko / Ukraine, Slovakia / 2022 / 85’
Film, which gives the physical feeling of memory: how it takes shape, transforms, plays tricks, charmes, evades.
Moving back and forth between intimate memories and public practices, the author refers to the role of personality dealing with subjective and collective memory.
The participants of DOCU/UKRAINE were:
