31/12/2025
The year is coming to an end, and we would like to express our gratitude & spotlight the people whose dedication made UFFB 2025 possible 👏🏼✨
👏🏼First of all, to our festival directors — , .days & — whose vision, leadership and endless energy shaped the festival and brought this incredible team together!
📍To our Event & Location Manager, who coordinated every detail of the Opening and Closing events and ensured the entire festival ran seamlessly behind the scenes.
💻 To our technical team — & Bogdana Bondarenko — for developing and maintaining our website, reacting quickly under pressure, and finding smart solutions when challenges appeared out of nowhere.
📱To the PR & SMM team — ,Silke Lehmann, & — for communicating our programme to the world, shaping our presence at all media plattforms, producing great visuals and keeping the festival alive across all platforms.
🪩To our volunteer coordinator, Gevorg Avetikyan, who guided and motivated a team of 50 volunteers — a huge organisational task handled with patience, humour and strength. You were incredible! 🙌🏻
🎊To our Guest Manager, Petro Baluk, who welcomed filmmakers and speakers from near and far, coordinated schedules, and created so many meaningful encounters between our audience and guests.
💰To our Partnerships & Sponsoring specialist, for building supportive collaborations, strengthening long-term relationships and securing resources for the festival.
💸To our accounting specialist — .paniotov — for managing numbers, contracts and budgets with accuracy, clarity and calm.
🎥A very warm thank you to our short film programme team for months of research, selection work and curatorial insight — especially to programme director Jana Riemann, administration lead Danyil Potopaiev, and team members Mariya Zoryk & Ivan Paniotov — for discovering new voices and assembling an exciting programme.
📸To our photographers — and for capturing emotions, atmosphere and moments we will remember.
🪩And to our DJs .de collective — for creating a space for dance and joy. 🎶✨
