Yuliia Kovalenko is a film critic and programmer at Kyiv’s Docudays UA IHRDFF. She was a lecturer at the Department of Cultural Studies and Arts History of Odessa National Polytechnic University, and at the Department of Fine Arts of Odessa State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture. In 2017, she received a PhD in Cultural Studies. From 2015 to 2017, she was a program director at independent movie theatre “Inotheatre”, in Odessa, where she held a special program on Ukrainian art cinema, “We Are Here”. As a film critic, she has been published in Ukrainian and international journals (Korydor, LB.ua, Filmar.online, Cineticle, La Furia Umana, etc.). Between 2016 and 2018 she was co-editor of Cineticle Magazine, devoted to art cinema. In 2019 she joined the program department at Docudays UA. In 2022, she co-founded the sloїk film atelier (sloik-film-atelier.com) – an independent Ukrainian film curators union, giving space for underrepresented voices and promoting them internationally. She runs her own blog about art cinema, kinotabs.com, and is a member of the Ukrainian Film Critics Union and the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine.