Yuliia Kovalenko is a film critic, PhD in cultural Studies and program director at Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival.
From 2015 to 2017 she was a programmer at the independent movie theatre Inotheatre in Odesa, where she held the special program of Ukrainian art cinema We Are Here, and as a program director run the 1st International Children Film Festival Next.
In 2017, she defended her PhD thesis and received a PhD degree in Cultural Studies. Yuliia has been working as a lecturer at the universities of Odesa, teaching theory and history of culture.
As a film critic, she has publications in Ukrainian and international journals (Kino Raksti, Korydor, La Furia Umana, etc.) and runs her blog about cinema Kinotabs.com.
In 2019, she joined the program department at Docudays UA, where she has been curating the DOCU/ART non-competitive program and other special programs, and the DOCU/CLASS section of master classes and workshops. In 2023 she became a program director at Docudays UA.
In 2022, she co-curated the program of Ukrainian cinema Perspectives of Ukrainian Cinema for Deutsche Kinemathek . As a programmer and program director of Docudays UA has been curating various programs of Ukrainian documentary cinema for international projects and foreign film festivals, events, institutions, including the exchange program with Taiwan International Documentary Festival in 2024.
The festival pass gives access to the rich 21st Docudays UA offline programme, which includes the best documentaries worldwide and meetings with their authors. It is valid from 31 May to 6 June at Zhovten Cinema.
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