Simple Structures: Films of Docudays UA-2026
Watch 20 films from the 23rd festival between June 7–12!
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Caught in the Net
Three adult actresses pretend to be twelve-year-old girls for an experiment that opens up the topic of child sexual abuse.
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Simple Structures: Films of Docudays UA-2026
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Traces
Traces shines a light on Ukrainian women who, after surviving conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV) and torture during Russia’s war, refuse to remain silent.
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The Blessed Ones
Suddenly thrown into a brutal war, a group of Ukrainian artists must face a once unimaginable question: What can artists do when the world is burning?
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The Silence of Others
A cinematic portrait of the first attempt in history to prosecute crimes of Franco’s 40-year dictatorship in Spain.
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Written Down As Father
The spoken and unspoken correspondence between an abandoned daughter and a father defending his homeland.
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Apocalypse Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, and the Day After Tomorrow
Why do some people choose to stay in their homeland even when each day might be their last?
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Ember
In 2022, as Russian forces reached the outskirts of Kyiv, an elderly couple lost their home and everything in it.
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Balance
What endures and what is missing, even when one has found refuge?
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Homecoming
A boy returns home via a robotic dog, his mechanical avatar, which he controls from his room in Poland.
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Peace for Nina
A documentary about a mother whose life has been shattered by war.
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One Day I Wish to See You Happy
Against the backdrop of war in Ukraine, filmmakers Max and Maryna try to hold on to their relationship as everyday life slowly falls apart around them.
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The Illusion of a Quiet Night
On the night of July 27–28, 2025, forty cinematographers and hundreds of people captured a single summer night in Ukraine.
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Don't Ask Me If I Killed
A meditation on endurance and moral gravity — on what remains of a person when the world forces them to fight.
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Silent Flood
A closed religious community in Ukraine has chosen to live in a beautiful landscape, where the front lines of both World War I and World War II once passed.
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Where Everything Disappears
Dmytro Dokunov, a Ukrainian nature-loving DOP and digital artist is enrolled in a combat unit to face the Russian invasion.
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Message in the Bottle
A documentary-experimental video about the personal and collective connection to Ukraine’s lost waters: the Black Sea, the Sea of Azov, and the Kakhovka Reservoir.
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Scales
A short autofiction film blending personal video archives, performed scenes, and experimental sound into a road trip.
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Broken Glass
Director searches for a gentler way back to artistic practice within the routines of meal preparation - one that embraces imperfection, vulnerability and transience.
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Pietà
A short documentary confession about a mother who has lost her son in war.
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And Where Now?
A multi-part video work created from materials filmed by the artist along Ukraine’s eastern frontlines while working as a fixer.
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I Am a Rock
Playing with Magritte’s “The Treachery of Images” and a song by Simon & Garfunkel, the work delves into the paradoxical relationship between nature, language, and representation.