DocuDays UA 2025

I am not in Kyiv but I follow what’s going on in a festival that I have visited some times before the war. With pleasure and I have no doubt that the organisers will take good care of every visitor, when Putin arranges a knock back after the Ukrainian success bombing airports and airplane around Russia.

The festival with its attached Industry section is of high quality. There is a section that includes 5 Ukrainian documentaries, they compete and I am happy that I am not a juror. If you read what I have been writing about the 5, you will understand that the jurors will have a difficult task. The films are – go to my reviews – “Songs of Slow Burning Earth” by Olha Zhurba, “Militantropos” by Yelizabeta Smith, Alina Gorlova and Simon Mozghovyi, “My Dear Théo” by Alisa Kovalenko, “In Limbo” by Alina Maksimenko and “Timestamp” by Kateryna Gornostai. Go to “Search” on filmkommentaren.dk and write the title and you will get to the reviews.

DocuDays is an international festival and I am equally happy to see Hungarian “Your Life Without me” (Photo) by Anna Rubi, it has received several awards in Hungary and abroad. And Lithuanian Giedrė Beinoriūtė is here with her beautiful “On Sacred and Profane”, “… Once a year, a quiet and secluded village in the north-western part of Lithuania comes alive to celebrate Catholic Easter, doing its best to preserve the vanishing ancient tradition of the Guardians of the Cross. With gentle humor observing the preparations of the local community for the vigil and immersing the audience in Easter night, the filmmakers raise questions about the relationship between the sacred and profane in modern world.

And so much more… Enjoy!

Tue Steen Müller

Müller, Tue Steen
Documentary Consultant and Critic, DENMARK

Worked with documentary films for more than 20 years at the Danish Film Board, as press officer, festival representative and film consultant/commissioner. Co-founder of Balticum Film and TV Festival, Filmkontakt Nord, Documentary of the EU and EDN (European Documentary Network).
Awards: 2004 the Danish Roos Prize for his contribution to the Danish and European documentary culture. 2006 an award for promoting Portuguese documentaries. 2014 he received the EDN Award “for an outstanding contribution to the development of the European documentary culture”. 2016 The Cross of the Knight of the Order for Merits to Lithuania. 2019 a Big Stamp at the 15th edition of ZagrebDox. 2021 receipt of the highest state decoration, Order of the Three Stars, Fourth Class, for the significant contribution to the development and promotion of Latvian documentary cinema outside Latvia. In 2022 he received an honorary award at DocsBarcelona’s 25th edition having served as organizer and programmer since the start of the festival.
From 1996 until 2005 he was the first director of EDN (European Documentary Network). From 2006 a freelance consultant and teacher in workshops like Ex Oriente, DocsBarcelona, Archidoc, Documentary Campus, Storydoc, Baltic Sea Forum, Black Sea DocStories, Caucadoc, CinéDOC Tbilisi, Docudays Kiev, Dealing With the Past Sarajevo FF as well as programme consultant for the festivals Magnificent7 in Belgrade, DOCSBarcelona, Verzio Budapest, Message2Man in St. Petersburg and DOKLeipzig. Teaches at the Zelig Documentary School in Bolzano Italy.

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