The 12th Docudays UA Traveling Human Rights Documentary Film Festival has begun in Chernihiv Oblast

This year, residents of more than 200 cities and towns in Ukraine will be able to see the best documentaries on human rights – and residents of Chernihiv region are also among them. The traveling Docudays UA festival in Chernihiv region will last from December 1 to 13 and will visit not only Chernihiv, but also Pryluky, Nizhyn and Mena this year.

Festival film screenings will take place in cinemas, cultural centers, higher education institutions, schools, youth clubs, libraries, as well as in penitentiary institutions. Viewers will be able to talk to famous human rights activists, cultural figures and artists. The organizers arrange thematic discussions and debates so that watching the film encourages analyzing the problem raised in it and looking for optimal ways to solve it at the local and state levels.

The program of this year’s Traveling Festival includes the winning films and films from the out-of-competition programs of the 12th Docudays UA. We are convinced that honest documentary filmmaking can protect against the weapons of propaganda, so this year’s Traveling Docudays UA will show two films from the program

PROPAGANDA

, which was the central program of the festival in Kyiv. The films presented in it, “Where the Dust Comes from and Where the Money Goes” by Tiito Ojasoo and Ene-Liis Semperi and “This is My Land” by Tamara Erde, touch on important areas of public life – education and politics.

In total, the audience of the Traveling Festival in Chernihiv will see

25 of the best documentary films from Ukraine and the world

.

Together with the Traveling Docudays UA, Chernihiv will be visited by

the photo exhibition “Do you hear, brother?”

by the famous Ukrainian photographer

Oleksandr Glyadelov

. The exhibition features black-and-white photos that tell the story of the revolution and war in Ukraine. Glyadelov still shoots on an analog camera with manual focus, a mechanical shutter release and without the “continuous shooting” function. It is practically impossible to shoot in this way in the epicenter of the battle, and therefore the photographer has to peer into what is happening in between. In other words, to shoot not the moment of destruction, but life.

Also, along with the festival, the

innovative educational exhibition “Everyone has the right to know their rights”

will travel through the Chernihiv region – an exposition of 25 stands, each of which tells us the history of the emergence and formation of human rights in the world, about the values ​​that are the basis of human rights.

Also, in Mena, Nizhyn, Pryluky and Chernihiv,

lectures and trainings on the basics of media literacy

– participants of these events will learn how to recognize manipulation technologies and propaganda in information messages.

You can find more information about the program of regional screenings on the web resources of the NGO “MART”, the Chernihiv Public Committee for the Protection of Human Rights, as well as on the official website of the Docudays UA Traveling Documentary Film Festival on Human Rights and on the pages of these events in social networks:

Organizers of the festival in Chernihiv:

Chernihiv Public Organization “M’ART” (“Youth Alternative”);

Chernihiv Public Committee for the Protection of Human Rights.

The expansion of the geography of the festival in the Chernihiv region was made possible thanks to the enthusiasm of our friends

– teachers and students of the Mykola Gogol Nizhyn State University; activists of the Meshchyna – Public Organization “GROM”, Public Organization “Menska Sotnya”, Center for Youth Culture and Leisure of the Menska District Council; teachers and students of Pryluky Gymnasium No. 5 named after V.A. Zatolokin; teachers of the Chernihiv Regional Pedagogical Lyceum for Gifted Rural Youth; and the support of our partners – Public Television: Chernihiv, Chernihiv Regional Universal Scientific Library named after V.G. Korolenko, Civic Network “OPORA”, Chernihiv Regional Art Museum named after G.P. Galahan, Museum of Contemporary Art “Plast-art”, restaurant “Avenue 33”.

Docudays UA

is the only international documentary film festival on human rights in Ukraine. It is non-political and non-commercial, and takes place every year during the last week of March in Kyiv. Every autumn, Docudays UA traditionally presents the best films in the regions of Ukraine during the Traveling Festival. Screenings last from October to December (inclusive).

The goal of the Traveling Festival is to promote the popularization and development of documentary filmmaking and to increase the level of respect for human rights in Ukraine.

The mission of the Traveling Festival is to create opportunities for every person in Ukraine to watch the most talented and relevant documentary films from around the world. In this way, we contribute to the development of critical thinking, the formation of an active civic position and the attitude to human dignity as the highest value. By implementing our mission, we contribute to the popularization and development of documentary filmmaking and to increase the level of respect for human rights in Ukraine.