CIVIL PITCH. Who and How will Work with the Project Participants
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CIVIL PITCH. Who and How will Work with the Project Participants
The four mentors will not only teach the participants how to present their projects, but also help them to decide on the central idea of their film and the form of their project, and, most importantly, to form effective teams of directors and activists.
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New Possibilities of the Docudays UA industry section
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New Possibilities of the Docudays UA industry section
B2B Doc: Producers Meet Producers
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Join the Docudays UA 2018! Festival Passes for Good Prices
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Join the Docudays UA 2018! Festival Passes for Good Prices
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Online Premiere of the Film Ten Seconds
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Online Premiere of the Film Ten Seconds
From January 24 on, the film will be accessible at the BABYLON’13 YouTube channel and at our online cinema DOCU/SPACE.
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CIVIL PITCH: Prominent Film Industry Experts will Meet Competition Pa…
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CIVIL PITCH: Prominent Film Industry Experts will Meet Competition Participants
Directors of European TV channels and the most famous human rights festivals of Europe, producers with Oscar nominations and experts in creative documentary cinema
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Documentary School: Lectures and Meetings of DOCU/CLASS Online
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Documentary School: Lectures and Meetings of DOCU/CLASS Online
Watch every Friday at BIG IDEA the best recordings of the Docudays UA 2017 film workshop
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The XV Docudays UA Moves to a New Festival Location
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The XV Docudays UA Moves to a New Festival Location
This year’s Docudays UA is moving to Podil, and cinema theater “Zhovten” becomes the new festival center
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Meet this year’s DOCUJury!
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Meet this year’s DOCUJury!
Time to meet the jury who will choose the winners among competition films
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Street Dancing. Meet the DOCU/YOUTH Program!
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Street Dancing. Meet the DOCU/YOUTH Program!
DOCU/YOUTH program coordinator Darya Bassel tells about the complex and exiting immersions into the stories of children and teenagers from all over the world
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CIVIL PITCH. The Best Projects Receive Monetary Prizes
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CIVIL PITCH. The Best Projects Receive Monetary Prizes
The authors of the best short film projects for CIVIL PITCH: Civil Activism Films will receive monetary prizes; the total prize fund is $22,000
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DOCU/UKRAINE: long-distance running
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DOCU/UKRAINE: long-distance running
This year, for the first time in the festival’s history, feature-length films will compete in DOCU/UKRAINE competition
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The Three Whales of the Live Library
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The Three Whales of the Live Library
Every year, Docudays UA invites its audience to the Live Library. It is a space where the books are real people
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Fast and furious. Arunas Matelis’ film retrospective
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Fast and furious. Arunas Matelis’ film retrospective
Docudays UA-2018 will feature two of his full length films and a collection of short movies that were awarded at the festivals in Amsterdam, Cannes, Leipzig, and Warsaw
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DOC/SADOC. From Playing Hide-and-Seek to TV Screens
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DOC/SADOC. From Playing Hide-and-Seek to TV Screens
Docudays UA invites you to the traditional program of events for our youngest audience!
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DOCU/BEST: Never Giving Up
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DOCU/BEST: Never Giving Up
This year’s DOCU/BEST program has five films about struggle.
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Finalists of the competition CIVIL PITCH: Civil Activism Films
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Finalists of the competition CIVIL PITCH: Civil Activism Films
Meet the finalists, who will be taking part in the next stage of all-Ukrainian competition Civil Pitch: Civil Activism Films
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Equal Equalities
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Equal Equalities
About the Festival Concept and Festival Symbol
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SENIOR EQUALITYAgile or Fragile? The SENIOR EQUALITY program
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SENIOR EQUALITYAgile or Fragile? The SENIOR EQUALITY program
SENIOR EQUALITY is one of the six special programs of Docudays UA. In this program we will talk about what the count of years means within one life, one family and the whole world
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Meet the Competition Program of Docudays UA 2018!
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Meet the Competition Program of Docudays UA 2018!
The feature-length international competition DOCU/WORLD and the DOCU/SHORT competition
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Between Heaven And Earth: The New Ukrainian Cinema
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Between Heaven And Earth: The New Ukrainian Cinema
Film critic Ihor Hrabovych tells about the DOCU/UKRAINE full-length competition programme
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B2B Doc Announces Its Finalists
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B2B Doc Announces Its Finalists
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Ukrainian Leninfall: Photo Exhibition and Discussion
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Ukrainian Leninfall: Photo Exhibition and Discussion
The Photography Exhibition ‘Looking for Lenin’ by Niels Ackermann and Sébastien Gobert can be seen between March 17 and April 1 in the Triptych: Global Arts Workshop gallery
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Who creates our bodies? The QUEEREALITY Program
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Who creates our bodies? The QUEEREALITY Program
QUEEREALITY is one of the six Docudays UA special programs. This year, to undermine numerous stereotypes that exist in our society, we want to look at the most widespread inequalities from different viewpoints
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Welcome the Opening Movie of the Festival
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Welcome the Opening Movie of the Festival
This year’s Docudays UA festival opens with documentary A Woman Captured by Bernadett Tuza-Ritter.
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Is It Possible to Talk About This? The SIMPLE FEMALE EQUALITY Program
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Is It Possible to Talk About This? The SIMPLE FEMALE EQUALITY Program
SIMPLE FEMALE EQUALITY is one of the six special programs of Docudays UA. It undermines stereotypes which are abundant in our society about the fates and roles of women in the contemporary world
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“Documents of the Era”. Sensational cinematic discovery by Dovzhenko …
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“Documents of the Era”. Sensational cinematic discovery by Dovzhenko Center at Docudays UA
Dovzhenko Center invites you to the musical film performance
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Meet the festival’s human rights program
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Meet the festival’s human rights program
We have prepared an intense program of the festival’s human rights events, which will be interesting not only for law experts, but also for everyone willing to debate, to act, and to ask sensitive questions about the “invisible layers” of everyday life
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The Everyday Life of Intolerance. The NEO-INEQUALITY program
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The Everyday Life of Intolerance. The NEO-INEQUALITY program
NEO-INEQUALITY is one of the six special programs of Docudays UA. At the festival, it will allow us to look at the everyday life of intolerance and its agents without unjustified generalizations
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Between faith and religion. The HOLY EQUALITY program
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Between faith and religion. The HOLY EQUALITY program
Olha Birzul, the Docudays UA program coordinator, speaks about the special program HOLY EQUALITY
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Morning Encounters at Docudays UA
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Morning Encounters at Docudays UA
The morning coffee our festival guests
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LIFE BELONGS TO US: Ex Libris: The New York Public Library by Frederi…
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LIFE BELONGS TO US: Ex Libris: The New York Public Library by Frederick Wiseman
On March 24 at the Ukraine Cinema, Docudays UA will demonstrate a new film by the legendary documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman
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DOCU/CLASS: From TV Channels to the Poetry of Documentary Cinema
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DOCU/CLASS: From TV Channels to the Poetry of Documentary Cinema
The DOCU/CLASS coordinator Olha Birzul speaks about the three whales on which this year’s workshop program rests
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I Am Another You. The EQUALITY SYNDROME program
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I Am Another You. The EQUALITY SYNDROME program
With the films which we have selected for the EQUALITY SYNDROME program, we want to overcome the indifference towards people with physical disabilities, especially those who were born with Down syndrome or who have mental disorders
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How to talk with children and teens about human rights
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How to talk with children and teens about human rights
This year, the intense RIGHTS NOW! program will also include events that will target exclusively children and teenagers. Read our guide to the events which the whole family can attend!
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«CIVIL PITCH School»
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«CIVIL PITCH School»
The teams of Ukrainian documentary filmmakers and activists tell about 1st workshop
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Traffic Safety School for Cyclists at Docudays UA!
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Traffic Safety School for Cyclists at Docudays UA!
Invite our audience to Traffic Safety School for Cyclists, which will take place at this year’s festival on March 24 and 25
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A Woman Captured: A Story of a Struggle for Freedom Opens the Docuday…
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A Woman Captured: A Story of a Struggle for Freedom Opens the Docudays UA Festival
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The Festival's Editions of the Docudays UA-2018
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The Festival's Editions of the Docudays UA-2018
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For the First Time, Docudays UA Will Screen Films with Audio Descript…
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For the First Time, Docudays UA Will Screen Films with Audio Descriptions
This year, Docudays UA together with Fight for Right has prepared two films for people with visual impairments
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Docudays UA industry platform: From ideas to changes
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Docudays UA industry platform: From ideas to changes
The Docudays UA programme will include an industry platform whose events will be dedicated not just to a theoretical search for answers to these questions, but also to the practical development of documentary filmmaking which would effectively promote positive change in Ukrainian society and beyond
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The Documentary Story of Parajanov’s Life at Docudays UA
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The Documentary Story of Parajanov’s Life at Docudays UA
A screening of the film Parajanov. A Ticket to Eternity, directed by Harry Tamrazian, is a special event at this year’s festival, brought to you by the independent international news service Current Time
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Some things have to be said
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Some things have to be said
About different and resolute female voices at this year’s Docudays film programme Simple Women’s Equality
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Universe Without Prejudice
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Universe Without Prejudice
he stories told by children are free of any prejudice and deprived of the dense net of ‘buts’ that are infinitely woven in adulthood. And the incredible simplicity of these narrations can bring to the surface quite adult issues concerning the organisation of life and the coexistence with the Other. This year’s DOCU/YOUTH is a direct illustration of this fact
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Who defines the boundary between us?
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Who defines the boundary between us?
This year’s Equality Syndrome programme includes three films in which directors try to reject the old tropes and create new aesthetic entities: rather than to represent the vulnerability and defenselessness of people with disabilities in contemporary societies, they try to demonstrate the nonsensical and prejudiced nature of social attitudes and certain laws
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CIVIL PITCH Announces Its Jury
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CIVIL PITCH Announces Its Jury
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RIGHTS NOW! 2018: Countering discrimination at different levels
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RIGHTS NOW! 2018: Countering discrimination at different levels
Speaking aloud about human rights and freedoms, creating a social dialogue between the authorities and the public, revealing violations that at first glance seem local, small and untimely – all of this is initiated every year with the annual human rights programme at the Docudays UA festival.
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Personality as fate and a bit of self-irony
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Personality as fate and a bit of self-irony
Our entire life consists of inequality. Sometimes we fight it, sometimes we get used to the situation, knowing in our hearts that we are unable to overcome the prejudice which has been blossoming in the minds and souls of people around us. The ‘Senior Equality’ programme of Docudays UA, like an Olympic ice skater, presents her free skating composition to the amazed public, walking fearlessly on the thin ice of an issue which is not openly discussed in Ukraine. Ageism? Discrimination on the ground of age? No! We have not encountered it – this is how we deceive ourselves.
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Håvard Bustnes: “It was like a battle between me and them”
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Håvard Bustnes: “It was like a battle between me and them”
The director of Golden Dawn Girls, a film about the far-right Greek political party, speaks about his relationship with the film’s protagonists and about their reaction to the film
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Luciano Barisone: Cinema should reveal the ‘invisible’ through the ‘v…
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Luciano Barisone: Cinema should reveal the ‘invisible’ through the ‘visible’
Luciano Barisone is a member of the jury which will select the winner of the international full-length film competition in the DOCU/LIFE category. This former cinema critic is a festival official with more than twenty years of experience, who for seven years now has been the chairman of one of the oldest documentary film festivals in the world, the Visions du Réel in Nyon, Switzerland.
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From Sweden to Uganda: The Loving and Political World
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From Sweden to Uganda: The Loving and Political World
This year’s thematic LGBTIQ+ program of the Docudays UA festival is represented by three feature films which reflect the whole spectrum of the situation we have now
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Emmanuel Gras: “I don’t make films with a very clear message”
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Emmanuel Gras: “I don’t make films with a very clear message”
This year, our selection of the prominent documentaries which have already graced the screens of the world’s major festivals and become hits includes the winner of the Cannes Critics’ Week Grand Prize, the poetic film Makala by the French director Emmanuel Gras
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Nazism in the Kitchen
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Nazism in the Kitchen
You can expect many things from a programme of documentary films about racial discrimination. For example, some kind of high moral tone, journalistic sharpness or a darkness of material. But probably not peacefulness. However, in fact, what all the three films of the special Neo-Inequality program at this year’s Docudays festival have in common is their peaceful, balanced tone. The films included in the programme do not throw us into any radical hells of interpersonal hostility, as it might seem at the beginning. Instead, they reveal the key topic from a completely different perspective by showing us ordinary people whom we could meet in our everyday lives.
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Arunas Matelis: “There used to be censorship in cinema, and now there…
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Arunas Matelis: “There used to be censorship in cinema, and now there’s commerce”
This year, the jury which determines the winners of the competition programmes DOCU/SHORT and DOCU/UKRAINE will include the Lithuanian director Arunas Matelis. His short documentaries have been presented in film festivals in Cannes, Rotterdam and Oberhausen. His feature-lengths works have won many of the top awards. In particular, his debut, Before Flying Back to Earth (2005) received an award from the Directors’ Guild of America, becoming only the second Eastern European film in history to win this award.
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Ramona S. Diaz: “The stories from the Philippines resonate within me”
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Ramona S. Diaz: “The stories from the Philippines resonate within me”
This year’s DOCU/HITS program includes Motherland by Ramona S. Diaz, which portrays the turbulent routine at a maternity clinic in Manila, Philippines.
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Believing in Life
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Believing in Life
This year’s Docudays UA Holy Equality programme symbolically reverses the thesis about the complete disparity of existing religions: the three films in this collection show that, despite all their diversity, every religious system is, at its core, a simple doctrine of the most important thing – faith in life.
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There and Back Again: Wandering around Podil Together with KOZA Podil…
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There and Back Again: Wandering around Podil Together with KOZA Podil and Docudays UA
Film screenings by Docudays UA, lectures on relevant topics, free Drink & Draw, and a party: all of these are the stops on the cultural route around Podil! KOZA Podil and Docudays UA invite everyone to spend March 31 together.
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The show of 15th Docudays UA award-winning films
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The show of 15th Docudays UA award-winning films
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CIVIL PITCH Announces Its Winners
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CIVIL PITCH Announces Its Winners
The jury of the competition CIVIL PITCH: Civil Activism Films have awarded prizes to the winners.
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The Winners of Docudays UA-2018
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The Winners of Docudays UA-2018
The 15th International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival Docudays has just ended in Kyiv. 62 films, 36 countries, 230 participants and incredibly intense programs of the DOCU/PRO industrial platform, the DOCU/CLASS workshops, and the RIGHTS NOW! human rights program.
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Thank you all for Docudays UA-2018!
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Thank you all for Docudays UA-2018!
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The Voices of Ukrainian Documentary Filmmaking
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The Voices of Ukrainian Documentary Filmmaking
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Submergence. Seven days under the tension of documentary cinema
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Submergence. Seven days under the tension of documentary cinema
Tamaz Ablotiya, Docudays UA intern from the Republic of Abkhazia, tells in his blog about about the festival films he has seen that have immersed him into the depths of the most painful wounds of society
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Ukrainian documentaries at the largest Swiss cinema forum Vision du r…
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Ukrainian documentaries at the largest Swiss cinema forum Vision du reel
On 18th of April, Docudays UA team will present a catalog of Ukrainian documentary films at one of the largest European documentary film festivals
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DOCU/HIT: The Best Documentaries At Ukrainian Cinemas
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DOCU/HIT: The Best Documentaries At Ukrainian Cinemas
The DOCU/HIT program, which presents documentaries that have become festival favorites at international film festivals, starts on April 20 in Kyiv. Later, DOCU/HIT will travel to Lviv, Kharkiv, Odesa
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How Ukrainian Documentary Cinema Was Welcomed in Nyon
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How Ukrainian Documentary Cinema Was Welcomed in Nyon
The team of Docudays UA presented the catalogue of Ukrainian documentaries at Visions du Reel, one of the largest documentary festivals in Europe
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Courage and Freedom at the Equality Festival in Chernivtsi
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Courage and Freedom at the Equality Festival in Chernivtsi
Courage to talk about your sexuality and freedom in your own body are the key themes of the films Silvana and Venus. In Chernivtsi, people will have an exclusive opportunity to watch these two documentaries, provided by Docudays UA, during the Equality Festival
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A Story of Struggle for the City. Docudays UA at the Archikidz! Educa…
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A Story of Struggle for the City. Docudays UA at the Archikidz! Educational Festival
Docudays UA continues to join public discussions about the development and transformation of urban space. At this year’s Archikidz! Festival, we are going to screen one of the best films of the special program CITY IMAGE
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#SaveOlegSentsov: as a Sign of Support of "Crimean Hostages"…
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#SaveOlegSentsov: as a Sign of Support of "Crimean Hostages"
As a sign of support, we are publishing a statement by the independent initiative Committee of Solidarity with “Crimean Hostages” regarding Oleg Sentsov and Volodymyr Bulakh’s hunger strike
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Documentary Films about Youth: Docudays UA at the Children’s Rights D…
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Documentary Films about Youth: Docudays UA at the Children’s Rights Day
On June 2, in Shevchenko Park, during the festival I HAVE THE RIGHT!, Docudays UA will demonstrate films about the freedom of childhood and youth in different countries
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Human in the City: Docudays UA at IZOLYATSIA with Documentary Screeni…
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Human in the City: Docudays UA at IZOLYATSIA with Documentary Screenings
Docudays UA together with the IZOLYATSIA foundation invite you to documentary screenings of films with a special perspective on the urban space
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DOCS TO GO! How the Industry Platform of the Krakow Film Festival Wor…
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DOCS TO GO! How the Industry Platform of the Krakow Film Festival Works
How do Polish industry platforms help filmmakers finish their work? How do documentary filmmakers themselves work with editing and the “skeleton” of the future story? In her blog, the Docudays UA program coordinator Darya Bassel shares her experience of attending DOC LAB POLAND
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DOCU/HIT: Four Cities and Three Stories That Became International Fes…
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DOCU/HIT: Four Cities and Three Stories That Became International Festival Favorites
This year’s DOCU/HIT tour around Ukrainian cities started immediately after the March festival in Kyiv and ended last week with an open-air screening in Odesa. Four cities, five big screens and the three most powerful films of the Docudays UA 2018
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Open Call for Applications for Docudays UA 2019!
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Open Call for Applications for Docudays UA 2019!
We are starting to process applications for the 16th International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival Docudays UA, which will take place in Kyiv on March 22-30, 2019
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EXPERIENCE. Films Need a Community
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EXPERIENCE. Films Need a Community
We offer you to read a series of blog entries by documentary filmmakers about their experiences of participation in the Festival’s competitions
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Call for Submissions for the Catalogue of the Ukrainian Documentary!
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Call for Submissions for the Catalogue of the Ukrainian Documentary!
We are opening a call for submissions for the 4th edition of the Catalogue of the Ukrainian Documentary
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Choose your festival symbol!
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Choose your festival symbol!
From now on, you have the opportunity to buy the Docudays souvenirs
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#SaveSentsov: Write an Open Letter!
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#SaveSentsov: Write an Open Letter!
Docudays UA calls for everyone to engage in the #SaveSentsov information campaign as actively as possible
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DOCU/CLUBs. Open Air Cinema
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DOCU/CLUBs. Open Air Cinema
Screenings on rooftops and mountain meadows, within the walls of a castle or on a summer terrace. The moderators of DOCU/CLUBs share experience of the open air film screenings!
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The search for identity. Docudays UA goes on a European tour
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The search for identity. Docudays UA goes on a European tour
'See Ukraine: An Empty Pedestal' will travel to Spain, Germany and France
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The Film Market in Leipzig: An Opportunity for Documentary Filmmakers…
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The Film Market in Leipzig: An Opportunity for Documentary Filmmakers from Docudays UA
The curated selection of films from Docudays UA for the video library of the DOK Leipzig festival!
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DOCU/THURSDAY: Online Workshop for Documentary Filmmakers
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DOCU/THURSDAY: Online Workshop for Documentary Filmmakers
We invite you to the BIG IDEA website every week to watch DOCU/CLASS!
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Global Short Docs Forum. A new competition for documentary filmmakers
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Global Short Docs Forum. A new competition for documentary filmmakers
A unique opportunity for makers of short films to meet representatives of VOD platforms
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The 15th Travelling Docudays UA starts its journey through Ukraine
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The 15th Travelling Docudays UA starts its journey through Ukraine
The screenings will start in Ternopil oblast from October 5!
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Seven Special Places to See Ukraine
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Seven Special Places to See Ukraine
Read about what’s special and important about the locations where this year’s See Ukraine is going to take place in our blog!
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Weekend of Documentaries in Madrid
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Weekend of Documentaries in Madrid
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Ukrainian Documentaries Conquer Leipzig
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Ukrainian Documentaries Conquer Leipzig
DOK Leipzig will be visited by a record number of Ukrainian participants
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Docudays UA in Leipzig: Spotlight on Ukrainian Films
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Docudays UA in Leipzig: Spotlight on Ukrainian Films
Docudays UA will bring forth a selection of the most prominent recent projects as part of the DOK Leipzig Film Market
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Download the new Catalogue of the Ukrainian Documentary
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Download the new Catalogue of the Ukrainian Documentary
Docudays UA presents the fourth edition!
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Watch The Grown-Ups Documentary in IZOLYATSIA
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Watch The Grown-Ups Documentary in IZOLYATSIA
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Sее Ukraine sets off to Munich
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Sее Ukraine sets off to Munich
The European tour “See Ukraine: An Empty Pedestal” by the Docudays IHRDFF arrives in Munich on November 6-11
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“The challenge for a filmmaker at the moment is how to access a fast …
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“The challenge for a filmmaker at the moment is how to access a fast changing market”
This year, Docudays UA hosts the Global Short Docs Forum! Read more about that in the interview with Flora Gregory, the director of the GSDF
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See Ukraine: The Three Pillars
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See Ukraine: The Three Pillars
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How and Why Documentary Filmmakers Should Apply for Global Short Docs…
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How and Why Documentary Filmmakers Should Apply for Global Short Docs Forum
The call for submissions to participate in the Global Short Docs Forum continues! GSDF includes both a practical intensive course for directors of short films, and meetings with global media giants.
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Meet Docudays UA at the IDFA!
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Meet Docudays UA at the IDFA!
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How Should Documentary Filmmakers Work with Media Platforms?
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How Should Documentary Filmmakers Work with Media Platforms?
Please read the brief interview with Rosie Garthwaite from BBC Arabic!
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SЕЕ UKRAINE En Route To Paris
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SЕЕ UKRAINE En Route To Paris
Paris is set to host the final event of this year’s European tour of the DOCUDAYS UA
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The Kyiv Crimean Solidarity with Oleksandr Kolchenko. Demonstration, …
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The Kyiv Crimean Solidarity with Oleksandr Kolchenko. Demonstration, Screening, Discussion
On November 26, the Ukrainian activist and political prisoner Oleksandr Kolchenko will have his 29th birthday. On that day, the Solidarity Committee initiative, together with the Crimean House and Docudays UA, invite you to watch the Golden Dawn Girls documentary by Havard Bustnes.
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Subscribe to the Festival Newsletter!
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Subscribe to the Festival Newsletter!
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Festival Pass – Special New Year’s Offer!
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Festival Pass – Special New Year’s Offer!
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Docudays UA Announces an Open Call for Volunteers!
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Docudays UA Announces an Open Call for Volunteers!
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Traveling Docudays UA-2018: Summing it up
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Traveling Docudays UA-2018: Summing it up
Between October and December 2018, the residents of more than 200 towns and cities in 22 regions of Ukraine had the opportunity to watch and discuss documentary films from this year’s Traveling Docudays UA program, and to participate in the Festival’s human rights events.
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Happy Holidays!
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Happy Holidays!
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