“Blue sweater with a yellow hole” wins the Sunny Side of the Doc prize at East Doc platform 2025

The 2025 East Doc Platform, which took place at the French Institute in Prague from March 13-19, awarded Tetiana Khodakivska’s Blue sweater with a yellow hole with the Sunny Side of the Doc Special Prize.

East Doc Platform is the largest co-production, funding and distribution platform tailor-made for Central and East European documentaries, every year connecting East European filmmakers and decision makers – producers, broadcasters, distributors and festival programmers – from around the world. 

This year’s East Doc Platform theme, Still Human?, explored the fragile intersection of humanity and technology. Artificial intelligence, digital manipulation, and algorithm-driven realities are reshaping our world—sometimes as tools for progress, sometimes as forces of dehumanization. What does it mean to be human in an age of automation?

Sunny Side of the Doc, which awarded the award to this Ukrainian-French-Czech coproduction, aims to bring the international documentary community together. Its international market takes place every year in June in La Rochelle, France, and activities and events are organised all over the world during the rest of the year.

Blue sweater with a yellow hole, coproduced between Pronto Film on the ukrainian side and Girelle Production on the French side, has received support from the European Solidarity Fund for Ukrainian Films twice: it was first awarded a development grant in July 2024, and then was among the first beneficiaries of the new ESFUF production support in February 2025.