We are creating a society of free people! This is the vision of the non-governmental organisation Docudays.

We are beginning a new three-year institutional project supported by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) and the Embassy of Sweden in Ukraine. Here is what we are focusing on in the next few years:
1) Strengthening democracy in Ukraine, facilitating the development of civil society in Ukraine using documentaries, discussions, and human rights education.
2) Preserving the history of the full-scale war, ensuring systematic documentation of war crimes and informing the global community about the war in Ukraine by developing the Ukraine War Archive.
3) Promoting Ukrainian culture and spreading the truth about the russian invasion of Ukraine through cultural diplomacy in Europe and beyond.
4) Strengthening NGO Docudays as an institution and stable development of the organisation.
5) Ensuring the accessibility of NGO Docudays events in order to include various population groups.

We are grateful to the Embassy of Sweden in Kyiv, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) for their trust and support, for the opportunity to create unique and powerful cultural and human rights products: Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Docudays UA Travelling Festival, Ukraine War Archive, DOCU/CLUB Film Club Network, DOCU/PRO Industry Platform, DOCUSPACE Online Cinema.

The history of development of civilization based on human rights shows that war is destruction, while art is a portal for revival.

We continue to fulfil our mission together with our reliable partners, creating a society of free people in Ukraine today and building the foundation for recovery and development after our victory.

Docudays UA is the only international human rights documentary film festival in Ukraine.

It is a member of the International Human Rights Film Network.

In 2023 the 20th International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival Docudays UA presented 53 films from 27 countries, from Greenland to South Africa. The program included 26 Ukrainian films: 12 feature and 14 short films. Among them are 4 world premieres and 21 national premieres of Ukrainian films. There were also art installations and themed discussions. The screenings and events took place from June 2 to June 8 at Zhovten and KINO42 cinemas, as well as in the DOCUSPACE online cinema. The festival ended with three audience days on June 9-11, featuring the festival hits and the films that won the competition programmes.The events of the human rights programme Rights Now!, The Ukraine War Archive, Coffee with Human Rights Defenders etc – 15 events in total were attended by 463 people. The viewing room of the Ukraine War Archive was attended by 120 guests.

The Travelling Festival Docudays UA takes place every year between October and December in local cinemas, houses of culture, schools and universities, film clubs and creative spaces, book stores, libraries, as well as institutions of the penitentiary system. An important component of the events are discussions, where the audience has a chance to talk to filmmakers, invited human rights advocates, cultural figures.

In 2018, between October and December, the Travelling Human Rights Documentary Film Festival Docudays UA visited 220 cities and towns in 22 regions of Ukraine, thanks to the efforts of 47 regional partners and the team of NGO Docudays.

In 2022, the Festival was held in a shortened period. Nevertheless, the team managed to organize 218 offline film screenings in 17 regions of Ukraine. The audience from Germany, Israel, Norway, and Poland joined the Festival for the first time. Offline and online, the team held 251 screenings and 82 events in total.

The film club network of Docudays UA (DOCU/CLUB) was created to organize non-profit screenings and discussions of human rights documentaries for human rights education purposes. As of 2023, the Network has over 400 film clubs, more than half of which have resumed their work after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Docudays UA film clubs function in schools, colleges, children's summer camps, universities, libraries, NGOs, education institutions for employees of the penitentiary system, penal colonies, jails and probation centers.

Every year during the festival, we hold a National Ukrainian Conference "Documentary cinema as an instrument of human rights media education" for the moderators of Docudays UA film clubs.

A joint project of NGO Docudays and Infoscope, launched in 2022. Ukraine War Archive is a non-profit information platform which stores all forms of digital materials collected during Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. We organise all the evidence in our database to preserve history and fairly represent events in legal and public discourse.

This is the first online documentary platform in Ukraine with an online cinema and the archive of DOCU/CLASS masterclasses. The documentaries that can be watched at the website are made in Ukraine and about Ukrainians by various NGOs in cooperation with the International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival Docudays UA. Their protagonists are ordinary citizens who strive to change the life in their country for the better. They persistently head towards their goals, overcoming external circumstances.

This is a platform for promoting the development of the Ukrainian film industry, establishing contacts with international experts in the documentary world, creating Ukrainian film projects. In particular, it includes workshops and discussions for everyone who is interested in documentary films, as well as training programs and pitchings for directors. In addition, the Festival's industry section featured such educational and filmmaking projects as The Guardian Goes Ukraine, DocWorks UA/UK, WARSCAPE, Youth about Ukraine, CIVIL PITCH: Civil Activism Films, CIVIL PITCH 2.0, FILMBOOST, Ukrainian Doc Preview.

Every year, from 2008-2020, the Docudays UA team annually released a Catalogue of the Ukrainian Documentary. The English version is distributed at specialized international film markets. The catalogue contains information about finished films and projects in progress, as well as contacts of Ukrainian independent producers, film and TV studios, festivals, distributors.

DOCU/HIT is a project for expanding the full-fledged run of the best documentaries, the favorites of international film festivals, in Ukrainian film theaters. Since 2016, Docudays UA has been screening the winners of awards at prominent world film competitions and the audience hits of the March festival — not only in Kyiv, but also in other Ukrainian cities.

This is a cultural diplomacy project. The European tour of Docudays UA involves screenings of documentaries and photo exhibitions about Ukraine, meetings with filmmakers, and discussions with civic activists, human rights advocates, writers who help explain the situations depicted in the films, provide more information about the events in Ukraine. SEE UKRAINE events have taken place in France, Greece, Italy, Germany and Spain.