The 18th Kiev-based International Human Rights Film Festival Docudays UA (26 March-4 April, online) saw Salome Jashi's Sundance and Berlinale entry Taming the Garden [+leggi anche:
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Simon Mozgovy’s highly anticipated Salt from Bonneville, which also world-premiered at Docudays, received a Special Mention in the DOCU/UKRAINE Competition, while Alina Gorlova's IDFA prizewinner This Rain Will Never Stop [+leggi anche:
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The organisers awarded the Andriy Matrosov Prize, introduced in memory of the festival’s producer, to the film As Far as Possible by Ganna Iaroshevych. French director Éléonore Weber’s There Will Be No More Night [+leggi anche:
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For the Rights Now! Award, the human rights jury chose the film A Colombian Family [+leggi anche:
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All winners in all competitions received a $1,000 prize – for the full list, please scroll down.

The festival's DOCU/PRO industry section included a presentation of five Ukrainian feature-length documentaries at the production/post-production stage in the Ukrainian Doc Preview, which took place for the second time this year. The Current Time TV Post-production Award, worth $2,000, Pitch the Doc Award and KINO42 Screening Award all went to Expedition 49 by Alisa Kovalenko (Home Games [+leggi anche:
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The East Silver Caravan Award from the Institute of Documentary Film, intended to support international festival distribution for one year, was handed to Maria Stoianova for Fragments of Ice, while the Sunny Side of the Doc Accreditation Award went to Florian’s Witnesses by Oleksiy Radynski, which also won the DAE Membership Award.

Kovalenko and Radynski's producer, Lyuba Knorozok, also received the EWA Network Membership Awards.

Here is the full list of Docudays UA 2021 award winners:

DOCU/WORLD Competition

Main Prize
Taming the Garden [+leggi anche:
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Special Mention
There Will Be No More Night [+leggi anche:
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DOCU/UKRAINE Competition

Main Prize
Ivan's Land - Andrii Lysetskyi (Ukraine)
Special Mention
Salt from Bonneville - Simon Mozgovy (Ukraine/Poland)

Current Time TV Award
This Rain Will Never Stop [+leggi anche:
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Andriy Matrosov Prize
As Far as Possible - Ganna Iaroshevych (Ukraine)
Special Mention
Roses. Film-Cabaret [+leggi anche:
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Rights Now! Award
A Colombian Family [+leggi anche:
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Special Mentions
Unseen [+leggi anche:
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Things We Dare Not Do - Bruno Santamaría Razo (Mexico)

Student Jury Award
Petit Samedi [+leggi anche:
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Special Mentions
Salt from Bonneville - Simon Mozgovy
Unseen - Maia Martiniak

Audience Award
There Will Be No More Night - Éléonore Weber

DOCU/SHORT Competition

Main Prize
An Ocean - Paul Scheufler (Germany)
Special Mention
White Death of the Black Wizard - Rodrigo Ribeiro (Brazil)

Ukrainian Doc Preview

Current Time TV Post-production Award
Expedition 49 - Alisa Kovalenko (France/Ukraine/Poland)

East Silver Caravan Award
Fragments of Ice - Maria Stoianova (Ukraine)

Pitch the Doc Award
Expedition 49 - Alisa Kovalenko

Sunny Side of the Doc Accreditation Award
Florian's Witnesses - Oleksiy Radynski (Ukraine/USA)

DAE Membership Award
Florian's Witnesses - Oleksiy Radynski

EWA Network Membership Award
Lyuba Knorozok (Florian's Witnesses)
Alisa Kovalenko

KINO42 Screening Award
Expedition 49 - Alisa Kovalenko