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2024 DOCU/SYNTHESIS
Interdisciplinary art programme continue to focus on artistic work with archives. This year it includes different approaches to them: documentation, diary, and commemoration.
2024 RIGHTS NOW!
In the Human Rights Programme, we have tried to trace the causal relationships between the processes launched by the Russian aggression and make sense of their impact on our future.
2024 DOCU/PRO
Series of events by leading specialists who shared their experience in distribution, editing, sound recording in documentary films and much more.
2024 Ukraine War Archive
We invite the audience to watch the events of the Ukraine War Archive, a project by NGO Docudays and Infoscope which collects and catalogues digital materials of the great war.
Films
AFU Media Centre & Ukraine War Archive
Badaboom
During a storming mission, a commander has to make quick, unconventional and very risky decisions.
If you want to fly, dig
Digging trenches, joking, combat missions, eating sandwiches under shelling, and digging trenches again.
Apache Tribe
A tank commander for Apache needs to do a mission with a gunner who is deploying to the confrontation line for the first time.
Events
2024 RIGHTS NOW!
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Spirit of freedom: Identity through the lens of cinema
What should Ukrainian cinema be like during the war and how has the industry changed?
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Sexual abuse on the Internet: how to protect children
How to stop the spread of these crimes? How to protect children and inform parents about such threats? How to find and punish those responsible for sexual abuse of children?
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Cultural resistance: Identity through the lens of modern art
What does Ukrainian art speak about during the war and how is it perceived by the world?
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Return what we have lost: Ukrainian identity of the East
How do we return the identity and values denied by the myths of Soviet and Russian propaganda to the East and its residents?
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Ten years of the war that has been going on for three centuries: What historic lessons Ukraine and the world must learn
What historic lessons must Ukraine and the world learn to prevent the aggression from repeating? How can our country fully integrate in the global security model?
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Forced deportation: How do we return and rehabilitate kidnapped Ukrainian children
What are the challenges on the path to returning deported and forcibly displaced Ukrainian children from Russia, Belarus and from the temporarily occupied Ukrainian territories?
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Educators, doctors, public utilities in the occupied territories — whom does Ukraine consider collaborators and is it fair?
So, is Ukraine fairly prosecuting citizens for alleged collaboration with the enemy, how many such verdicts have been handed down so far, and what should the state improve?
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Showing resilience: Identity through the lens of music
How do we avoid wasting the credit of interest in Ukrainian music and transform it into an instrument of competitiveness?
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Invisible work of caregivers for wounded veterans
For many, the work of caregivers remains invisible. At the same time, for a caregiver, it becomes a lifelong job, often crowding out all other areas, including proper rest.
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Without the imperial past: how young people can influence the process of decolonization of Ukraine
What are the challenges and opportunities for young people in the process of decolonization of Ukraine? What youth initiatives already exist in Ukraine and how can youth participation in decolonization processes be supported and expanded?
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Our support abroad: How to convince the world to continue helping Ukraine
How can we inspire and unite the public in other countries to give more support to Ukraine?
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The right to justice. How not to forget about the interests of victims when documenting war crimes
How do we not forget about the main goal of our work — establishing justice in the interests of victims — and not replace it with our own ambitions, clickbait headlines, shocking video sequences, and such inappropriate hype?
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Language and war: Identity through the lens of literature
How does literature, particularly veteran literature, create a new layer of Ukrainian identity?
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Crimea and Ukraine: Identity through the lens of history
How to strengthen connections with the occupied peninsula and remember about the historic and cultural commonalities that connect us?
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Living next to a terrorist state: How can Ukraine stand its ground
How can security alliances help Ukraine and other countries in the world make it impossible for aggressor countries to attack their neighbours?
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The “quiet” deportation of Crimean Tatars continues
In the discussion that followed the screening, the participants discussed the situation in Crimea at the moment and why Crimean Tatars are forced to leave their homeland in large numbers.
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Working for the future despite the war: How to develop human potential
How should educational and public institutions, private businesses change in order to meet the challenges of wartime and postwar economy to the best of their ability?
2024 DOCU/SYNTHESIS
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Spaces of the common. SINEMA TRANSTOPIA
Together with SINEMA TRANSTOPIA curators, Galo E. Rivera and Bethan Hughes, we will talk about the interdisciplinary nature of filmmaking practices.
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Field recordings as soundscaping of memory: witnessing and artistic practices
We focus on the musical and audiovisual projects by the Ukho agency, the diversity of the works of the composer and sound artist Oleh Shpudeiko, the soundscaping of memory and editing of the artist Ian Spektor.
2024 Ukraine War Archive
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What can we do with archival materials about the war right now?
Ukraine War Archive cannot bring anyone to responsibility for war crimes, but we provide tools that can help do this.
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10 years of war: What we will remember and how
Should we invest resources into memorials and monuments? Is this the right time to think and plan how we are going to remember this war? And can we plan the future without processing our memory of the past?
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How is hate speech related to war crimes?
How exactly do informational messages prepare the ground for the occupation army’s crimes beforehand?
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Misinformation: Its creation and discovery using AI
Russia is using AI widely for misinformation campaigns, for example, by creating fake photos and videos. Ukraine uses AI to prevent and counteract informational manipulations. Who does it and in what way?
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Can we bring Russia to responsibility for environmental crimes?
A fair mechanism of punishment for international environmental crimes and protection of the environment around the world is a path towards a better world for future generations. But how do we find this path?
2024 DOCU/CLASS workshop
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Short films abоut important stories: Who short documentaries are made for
What kind of stories work for short running time? Who selects shorts for festival screenings and how? How do filmmakers imagine their audience and who actually attends screenings in real life?
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Grants 101: Olha Beskhmelnytsina and Isabel Arrate Fernandez
We will talk about how grant applications are evaluated and see who those mysterious people from the funds are and how they determine which projects are worth supporting.
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Decade of Ukrainian Documentary Filmmaking: The Film Critics’ Perspective, from the Union of the Ukrainian Film Critics
The guest experts will talk about the particularities of film critics’ work with documentaries, its general context in the Ukrainian market, and discuss the changes which they have been observing in Ukrainian documentary cinema in the past 10 years.
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Hi, we’re from Ukraine: What film curating is and how it affects the country’s image
What is this mystical field and what stereotypes do film curators encounter in their work? Why is a critical perspective mandatory, and how does one grow up harmoniously as you watch films?
2024 The DOCU/CLUB Network
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10 years of the DOCU/CLUB Network: How documentaries and film club initiatives change Ukraine’s communities
How do film clubs influence the formation of civil society through documentary films?
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Where you can watch Docudays UA films after the festival: Alternative distribution in the DOCU/CLUB Networks
How does the process of updating the film library for the Network’s film clubs go? Which films become long-term regulars in film club screenings? What film topics do Ukrainian audiences want to see more of?