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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.
Films
Simple Structures: Films of Docudays UA-2026
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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.
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.
From Docudays UA With Love
Almanac Encyclopaedia of the Maidan
Automaidan
After president Yanukovych, Serhiy Khadzhynov, one of the founders of Automaidan, directed the activities of the movement to fighting corruption and reforming the law enforcement agencies, the prosecutor’s office and the police.
Language
Activists organise free courses for everyone who wants to learn Ukrainian.
Euromaidan SOS
The next day after the students on Euromaidan were beaten up, the activists of the Centre for Civil Liberties opened a hotline for the victims and the volunteer lawyers thus providing the protesters with legal services and defence with court.
Self-Defence
Since its first days, Euromaidan was guarded by Self-Defence, the volunteers who took turns to maintain order and security.
Crimea SOS
On the first day of Russian occupation of the peninsula, activists Tamila Tasheva, Sevgil Musaeva and Alim Aliyev created the Facebook page Crimea SOS.
Myr
Five months a participant of the Maidan self-defense in Kyiv, two months in the National Guard, later the rotation – such was 2014 for Myroslav Hay.
Lustration
But that was about it: there were no appointments, no committee, and no lustration laws.
White Collar Hundred
Journalist Denis Bigus gathered the White Collar Hundred - volunteers, who restored and streamlined documents from "Mezhyhirya".
Hottabych And His Team
In a year Illya Lysenko named Hottabych managed to create a team of five crews which rescue the wounded soldiers from the hot spots.