We are still living with memories about the festival week and are happy to read feedback about the 12th Docudays UA. Because the most precious thing in our festival – is the impressions it gives to our viewers and guests, who have taken a part of the festival with them to different countries of the world.
“I am very grateful to you for such wonderful times at the festival! It is been an honour being with you guys. I am sure that this great work you've done is making a difference and it will give fruits for the happiness of all. Hope to see you soon in this beautiful path of being a human being, happiness!”
Renato Borrayo Serrano, director of Another Country
“Congratulations, sincerely. I also hope that the political situation will be better in the coming weeks and months, permitting you to design in 2016 your next awards in flowers & grass instead of a piece of a tank rocket;-)”
Olivier Magis, director of Ion
“Docudays is such a lovely festival. It has the warmest atmosphere and I know I speak for all of the filmmakers when I say that we felt truly welcomed in your city – welcomed by you, the organisers, and welcomed by our audiences, who were some of the most engaged I have encountered. I met some wonderful people during my brief days in Kiev and for that I am immensely grateful”.
Theo Hessing, director of A Sacrifice
“Yesterday after being back in Amsterdam I was feeling quite nostalgic about my departure. In such a short time I met so many kind people. I left the festival with the impression that it was not only a place for films, but also of encounter and solidarity, which in my view is exactly what people need in Ukraine nowadays. Political conflict raises fear, and fear can either isolate people or unite them. You are doing a very important job for pursuing the latter.”
Pablo Nunez, producer of Propaganda
“Thank you, the organizers of the creative and free Docudays UA, for a wonderful festival, a great retrospective of Voices of Bam, The Hermitage Dwellers, Boris Ryzhy , and the short film The General and the Dissident with Semen Gluzman. Thank you for this young and eager audience who fills cinemas, and for much hope, courage and love in a country with a tragic and senseless war going on 600 km from Kyiv...”
Aliona van der Horst, film director
"I was really impressed with your festival. It was so well organized, and your program and DOCU/CLASS were very interesting."
Lars Skree, DOP, The Look of Silence