The Butterfly’s Dream
RESILIANCE: An emotional rollercoaster where the final award is the life of a girl smiling despite her pain. [Director Jarosław Szmidt]
That Which Does Not Kill
TRAUMA: An innovative, challenging, and disturbing examination of rape told through a narrative explored by survivors - and perpetrators of sexual violence. [Director Alexe Poukine]
This Is Bosnia: The Other Face of Europe
CONFLICT: The long shadow cast by the Bosnian war is glimpsed through the lives that remain broken and disrupted a quarter of a century after the conflict ended. [Director Anna Armengol]
Salka In No Man's Land
COLONIALISM: A mad max-inspired terrain exists on Earth, and it is a no man's land in Mauritania. [Director Xavi Herrero]
Hey! Teachers!
EDUCATION: Education takes on an entirely new meaning when two idealistic young city slickers take up teaching jobs in a provincial Russian town. [Director Yulia Vishnevets]
An Ordinary Country
COMMUNISM: The banality of evil in communist-era Poland explored through archive footage of secret police audio and film recordings. [Director Tomasz Wolski]
The Booksellers
NOSTALGIA: Both a celebration of book culture and serious exploration of its future, The Booksellers peers into a small but fascinating world. [Director D.W. Young]
Finding Courage
CONTROL: A chilling glimpse into the murderous reality of China's suppression of meditation movement Falun Gong. [Director Kay Rubacek]
Mirror, Mirror on the Wall
PERCEPTION: Nyon´s Vision du Réel takes a look into the world of beauty competitions in the social media age. [Director Sacha Schöberl]
A Machine To Live In
URBANISM: Cosmic utopianism set within the space-age city of Brasília. [Director Yoni Goldstein, Meredith Zielke]
What’s happening to our planet?
ECOLOGY: How a massively popular nature TV series can help the world
We are movie cameras, lucidly dreaming
BOOKS: Filmmaker and curator Pamela Cohn knows all about the medium’s gallant struggle for a cinematic language that is new, immediate, and accessible to the viewer.
Docudays UA’s Digital DOCU/CLASS: «Force majeure has happened – and it’s global. How will festival policies change now?»
INDUSTRY A collection of documentary industry veterans discuss a topic that has been on the minds of many of us: In this new era, how will festival policies change?
Postscript: the new virtual normal, covering a film festival during COVID-19
VIEWS: In the new COVID-19 reality, the virtual film festival has become the new normal.
Permanent state of emergency?
Coronavirus: Are the European authorities truthful about how long the measures will last? Can you lock up a population for 12-18 months before a vaccine is developed?
About white men and machines
AI: Recent developments in the field of intelligent machines clearly demand a reflection. The latest book by Arthur I. Miller is dedicated to this, but it only partially fulfills its promise.
Conversations behind the movie camera
CINEMA: Through long-form conversations, Pamela Cohn offers a global collection of discussions on film and video as an essential medium for conveying the world's most urgent concerns.
Promoting social connection
MEDIA: Hacked Transmissions is a timely analysis of the capacity of media to foster social connection.
Four measures against the use-and-throw culture
CONSUMPTION: Keucheyan does not want authoritarian Marxism where the bureaucracy decides what its citizens need.
