This year’s events cover an incredibly wide area: Ternopil, Chortkiv, Kremenets, Kliuvyntsi, Dubivtsi, Vyshnivets, Hrymailiv, Danivtsi, and Velyki Hayi.

The programme includes numerous film screenings attended by the filmmakers, meetings with veterans of the Ukrainian human rights movement and political prisoners from Soviet times, special events marking the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group, and even a joint tree planting in Docudays Park in Dubivtsi.

Choose what resonates with you and join the screenings and conversations!

2 November, 10:30 a.m.
Presentation of the book Lawyer Antin Horbachevskyi and His Era 

In the Chortkiv community, 2026 has been declared the Year of Antin Horbachevskyi to mark the 170th anniversary of the birth of the distinguished Ukrainian lawyer. The book will be presented by its author, Oleksandr Stepanenko.

Location: Chortkiv, Roman Illiashenko Chortkiv Academic Lyceum.

Special events marking the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group:

• 4 November, 1:00 p.m.
  Presentation First Citizens of a Future Country.
  Speaker: Oleksandr Stepanenko, Head of Helsinki Initiative XXI NGO.
  Location: Ternopil, Ternopil Regional Children’s Library.

• 5 November, 11:00 a.m.
  Meeting with veterans of the Ukrainian human rights movement.

We will speak with veterans of the Ukrainian human rights movement: Myroslav Marynovych, a founding member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group and a Soviet-era political prisoner, and Yevhen Zakharov, Director of the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group and a participant in the dissident movement of the 1970s and 1980s.

 Location: Ternopil, Western Ukrainian National University

4 November, 2:00 p.m.
Screening and discussion of The Ferry Flows by Zhora Papoyan.

After the screening, the film’s director will join the discussion online.

Location: Ternopil, Ternopil Regional Children’s Library

5 November, 2:00 p.m.
Online conference on the provision of free secondary legal aid.

The event will be held for employees of the Western Interregional Centre as part of the Being Present information campaign, which aims to draw attention to violations of the rights of people in the occupied territories. 

Participants will also watch Traces online and discuss their impressions with experts. 

Location: Zoom.

7 November, 1:00 p.m.
Presentation of the Unclosed Case project

This special Festival event will feature an author’s presentation of a project addressing the rehabilitation of victims of political repression by the communist regime, as well as a screening of Traces.

Location: Berezhany, Berezhany Castle.

8 November, 2:00 p.m.
Screening and discussion of A Normal Life by director Mykola Nosok.

The event will take place as part of the Being Present information campaign dedicated to people under occupation.

Special guest: Ihor Voitsekhivskyi, veteran support specialist and coordinator of the Blue and Yellow Ribbon project.

Location: Danivtsi, SVOYI Veterans and Volunteer Space.

9 November, 11:00 a.m.
Presentation of the Travelling Docudays UA Festival collections

Location: Kremenets, Kremenets Museum of Local History.

Many more interesting films and sincere discussions await audiences—the full event schedule is available on our website: https://travelling.docudays.ua/schedule/ternopil-oblast/all-cities/all-days/. 

 Follow updates on the Travelling Docudays UA in the Ternopil Region page. 

Admission to all events is free.

Contacts:

• Volodymyr Khanas, regional coordinator of the Travelling Docudays UA in the Ternopil Region for the Men’s Adaptation Centre NGO, email: [email protected], tel.: +380 96 210 40 76
• Oleksandr Stepanenko, regional coordinator of the Travelling Docudays UA in the Ternopil region for the Green World Environmental and Humanitarian Association NGO (Chortkiv), email: [email protected], tel.: +380 67 354 81 86