Docudays UA Presents Special Program of Chilean Documentaries
This year’s Docudays UA will feature a special program of five thought-provoking Chilean documentaries, created in collaboration with FIDOCS — the International Documentary Film Festival of Santiago, The Gaze reports, citing Detector Media. The selection explores themes of memory, resistance, intimacy, and social transformation.
Program curator Danilo Petrovich Jorquera, a FIDOCS programmer and juror of the DOCU/World competition, highlighted the films’ exploration of “blurred lines between memory, resistance, and the intimate spaces of everyday life,” and the power of imagery as a tool for healing and protest.
The program includes:
• “When the Clouds Hide the Shadow” by José Luis Torres Leiva — a poetic, emotionally charged meditation on loss and solitude.
• “An Oscillating Shadow” by Celeste Rojas Mugica — a visual dialogue between father and daughter using archival negatives to confront exile and trauma.
• “Pirópolis” by Nicolás Molina — a portrait of Valparaíso’s evolving fire brigade during devastating wildfires.
• “Malquridas” by Tana Gilbert — an intimate view of imprisoned women in Chile, filmed on their mobile phones.
• “Social Realism” by Raúl Ruiz and Valeria Sarmiento — a long-lost 1973 film completed 50 years later, reflecting on Chile’s political dreams and disillusionment.
The 22nd Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival will take place in Kyiv and online from June 6 to 13, 2025.