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• Submit your film to the 11th edition of One World Festival!


We have opened submissions for the next edition of One World Festival. 11th annual One World takes place from 11th to 19th March 2009 in Prague.

First submission deadline is 30th September 2008. This submission deadline is obligatory for those films made before April 2008. The extended deadline for films made after this date will be announced in advance. We kindly ask you to send your entries as soon as possible.

For more information and on-line entry form please go to: http://www.jedensvet.cz/ow/2008/index_en.php?id=477

• One World in Bucharest:


The first edition of One World Romania takes place in Bucharest May 27 through June 1 2008. It will be the first human rights film festival to take place in Romania. The program brings 46 outstanding documentaries focused on contemporary dictatorships, children's rights, gender equality, religion and systems of justice. Screenings will be followed by debates with filmmakers and special guests. The accompanying program includes 4 exhibitions and a rock concert. The festival is co-organized by People in Need and the Czech Centre in Bucharest, and is supported by many local partners. More information and complete program at: www.oneworld.ro.

• One World in Washington, DC:


On May 14–17, 2008, People in Need in collaboration with the Embassy of the Czech Republic presents “Echoes” of One World in Washington, DC. The human rights film festival features 6 films focused on human rights violations affecting Burma, Belarus, and Cuba. Debates with filmmakers or experts on the given theme of each film follows the screenings. The series will open with the DC premiere of Citizen Havel (Občan Havel) at the Avalon Theatre on May 14. The festival then moves to the Goethe-Institut. For more info and complete program go to http://www.mzv.cz/wwwo/?zu=washington.

• One World Bulgaria:


One World Bulgaria starts in Sophia on May 7 as the first ever human rights film festival in Bulgaria. Organized in cooperation with One World Prague, this new festival will present some 40 films and numerous accompanying events. It will be opened by Letter to Anna, a haunting film that received this year..s Vaclav Havel Special Award. After Sophia, the films will be screened in other towns (Plovdiv, Varna, Burgas, etc). For more information visit www.bgoneworld.org.

• BEST OF ONE WORLD April 14 –18 in NEW YORK:



Bohemian National Hall, 321 E 73rd Street , New York

The festival in New York City will present selected films on Cuba, Burma, and Belarus.
All screenings will be accompanied by debates with experts on the given theme or filmmakers.
The opening screening will be the film Damas de Blanco (Ladies in White, directed by Ivana Miloševič) on Monday, April 14 at 7 pm.
The film will be introduced by the festival’s director Igor Blaževič with a reception following the screening.

For more information and tickets see: www.czechcenter.com

• One World April 16 –18 in BRUSSELS

The event is organized by People in Need and Permanent Representation of the Czech Republic to the European Union with cooperation of the Czech Center Brussels. All films will be followed by debates and discussions with experts and special guests.

Screenings will take place in the building of the Permanent Representation, at Rue Caroly 15, 1050 Brussels.

A special screening of The Greatest Silence: Rape in Congo will take place in the European Commission, Thursday April 17, 7pm in the Berlaymont Building, 200 rue de la Loi

Complete program and tickets at:www.czechrep.be/oneworld

Actual N E W S in Prague


One World 2008 Winning Films
Best Film Award:
Behave
Maria Ramos, Brazil 2007, 80 min

Best Director Award:
Crime and Punishment
Zhao Liang, China/France 2007, 123 min

Václav Havel Special Award:
Letter to Anna
Eric Bergkraut, Switzerland 2008, 83 min

Rudolf Vrba Award:
Rebellion: The Litvinenko Case
Andrei Nekrasov, Russia 2007, 106 min

Main Jury Special Mention:
Citizen Havel
Pavel Koutecký / Miroslav Janek, Czech Republic 2008, 150 min

Further Film Awards:
Mayor of Prague’s Best Short Film Award:
One Day

Czech Radio Award:
FACES [:phases]

Student Jury Award:
Iron Ladies of Liberia

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One World Festival took place also in Belarus
On the same day as the One World festival opened in Prague, the Belarus edition was launched in Hrodna, Western Belarus. The festival was officially opened by the Czech Chargé d'Affaires in Belarus, Vladimír Ruml.

Screenings began with the film Cuba libre depicting the Cuban dictatorship. For the Belarusian festival, films were screened in one of the last public places available in Belarus where people can still gather periodically at events with a clearly pro-democratic tone. There was great public interest shown and the room was filled to capacity with more than eighty viewers.

View all news on:
http://www.jedensvet.cz/ow/2008/index_en.php?id=83#

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General F A C T S :

One World's 10th Anniversary!One World festival will celebrate it's 10th anniversary in Prague,
March 5–March 13, 2008. Afterwards, the festival highlights will tour in several cities around the globe, incuding:

New York City, Washington DC, Brussels, Paris, Madrid, Vienna, Bucharest, London, Madrid, Paris, Sofia, Ljubljana

Each city will have it’s own special program – the best films from 2008, human rights conferences, lectures at universities, interesting speakers and of course receptions and parties. For further info about the 2008 Tour see our blog2008 Program Categories
A word from the festival’s founder Igor Blazevic:
"... this is a year in which the 60th anniversary of the adoption of the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights will be celebrated. The Olympic Games will also be held in China and the Czech Republic will be preparing intensively for its presidency of the EU, which will be preceded by the French presidency. All of this will be reflected in the One World programme for 2008."• Dictatorships in the Spotlight
... 2008 is the 60th anniversary of the Declaration of Human Rights. Nevertheless, a number of countries are still ruled by dictators.
While some are occasionally covered by mainstream media (Cuba, Belarus, North Korea, Sudan, Burma) other dictator’s rule in oblivion
(e. g. Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan)
• Contemporary French Documentary ... 9 outstanding French films. The selection was supported by the Paris-based festival Cinéma du Réel, which will in turn present a showcase of documentaries from the Czech Republic• Asian Panorama ... the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing inspired the focus on human rights in China. The section will also include films from India• Frontline Club ... the section will feature the work of top British television reporters• Why Democracy? ... a selection of the global project aiming to raise tough questions on democracy• Silenced Testimonies ... films that were censored and never screened in the Czech Republic and the GDR• Putin’s Empire ... contemporary Russia and the issues of Putin’s rule as seen by various filmmakers• Czech documentaries ... a traditional showcase of new local filmmaking• Films that Changed the World ... 8 documentaries that played a key role in raising consciousness, including Thin Blue Line and Bowling for ColumbineCompetitions and awards:
Main Competition:
films compete for the Best Film Award and the Best Director Award, presented by the main jury. The international jury is composed of outstanding filmmakers.
Right to Know: a unique competition category that includes full-length, original and high-quality documentary films drawing attention to unknown or suppressed issues relating to human rights. The 16 films compete for the Rudolf Vrba Award. The Jury members are not filmmakers, instead, they have deliberately been chosen among charismatic and brave individuals who are committed to upholding human rights.
Short Forms: covers experimental and animated human-rights-oriented films of under 35 minutes competing for the Mayor of Prague’s Best Short Film Award. In keeping with tradition, directors and programmers of prestigious international film festivals have been invited to sit on this section’s jury.
The Czech Radio Award is presented for the best use of sound or music in a festival documentary.
A special award is decided by the festival-goers: The Pilsner Urquell Audience Award.

My Interests

Nonfictions films, human rights, reflection, great discussions, parties and all the other riches world has to offer:

Main Message 2008

OPENING CEREMONIES 2008

DISSIDENTS AND FREEDOM

JURIES

DEBATES AFTER SCREENINGS

PEOPLE IN NEED DAY

ONE WORLD BEHIND THE CURTAIN

PROGRAM MEETS GUESTS

SCREENINGS FOR SCHOOLS

FASHION SHOW AGAINST COMMUNISM

NGO FORUM

MUSIC

• One World is the largest human rights film festival in Europe

• Organized by Czech NGO People in Need (www.pinf.cz)

• Founding Member of the Human Rights Film Network (www.hrfn.org) group of 17 human rights film festivals worldwide

• One World received the Honourable Mention of the Unesco Prize for Human Rights Education

• Extensive outreach educational activities in schools

One World official website
Vaclav Havel about One World:

"Nine years of the festival represents nine years of reflection, nine years of growing self-confidence within Czech civil society. If young people continue to show an interest in and commitment to the problems, poverty and conflicts of today’s world, then we can all hope that the world of tomorrow will always be just that bit better than the world of today."

I'd like to meet:


The Homo Homini Award Laureates,
the brave Burmese women Phyu Phyu Thin, Su Su Nway and Nilar Thein.

Unfortunately we cannot: they are in hiding or in prison.

Movies:

One World 2008 offers 138 documentary films
here some of them:

Bloody Cartoons

Citizen Havel

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Everything‘s cool

Darfur Now!

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Egypt: We are Watching You

War/Dance

Durakovo, Village of Fools

Iron Ladies of Liberia


Bowling For Columbine

Television:


OnLine Screening on the Czech TV Web

Heroes:


Our heroes are filmmakers and also the audience - but mainly the people the films are about.
Some of these people became members of the festival's Rudolf Vrba Jury, a special jury formed by charismatic and courageous individuals, who are engaged in the field of defending human rights.
In 2008 they are:
Rebiya Kadeer
Democracy Activist and Uyghur Rights Advocate / East Turkistan/China
Osvaldo Alfonso Valdes former Cuban political prisoner and co-founder of the Cuban Liberal Democratic Party / Cuba
Min Zin
Journalist and Democracy Activist / Burma
Mohsen Sazegara
journalist and political apresidential candidate / Iran
Oksana Chelysheva
Spokesperson, Russian-Chechen Friendship Society / Russia
Kim Seung Min
freedom fighter and Founder of Free North Korea Radio / North Korea
In 2007 they were:
Gul Rahman, Afghanistan
Hope Christians, South Africa
Hseng Noung, Burma
Ina Kuley, Belarus
Ramón Humberto Colás, Cuba
In 2006 they were:
Zoé Valdés, Cuba
Senay Ozdemir, Turkey
Deborah Christine Stothard, Malaysia
Emilie Horácková, Czech Republic
Ondrej Cakl, Czech Republic

My Blog

ONE WORLD AROUND THE WORLD 2008

One World Tour in 2008   Brussels Bucharest Madrid New York Paris Sofia Vienna Washington   Held under the auspices of Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic Karel Sch...
Posted by One World on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 09:13:00 PST

One World 2008 Award Ceremony in Prague

One World 2008 Winning Films are here!   The prizes were awarded during the Closing Ceremony of the Festival on the Thursday evening in Lucerna.   The winners of the Tenth edition of the One...
Posted by One World on Sun, 23 Mar 2008 05:15:00 PST

Have a virtual look to the Past ...

  ... and watch the nine award-winning documentaries from previous One World editions: One World traditionally brings documentaries to spectators outside cinema walls. A special o...
Posted by One World on Sat, 15 Mar 2008 08:32:00 PST

One World 2008 in 28 Czech cities

Regions One World in the Regions / Jeden svet v regionech In 2008, the One World festival will be visiting a record 28 Bohemian and Moravian towns and cities. All these festival centres will combin...
Posted by One World on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 07:22:00 PST

"Taxi To The Dark Side" just won the O S C A R - A W A R D for best documentary

Over One Hundred prisoners have died in suspicious circumstances in U.S. custody during the war on terror. "Taxi to the Dark Side" takes an in-depth look at one case: an Afghan taxi driver called Dil...
Posted by One World on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:02:00 PST

Complete festival program now on the One World web + Bits of the Program

Complete festival program now on: http://www.jedensvet.cz/ow/2008/index_en.php?id=112    with Czech and English synopsis to each of the 138 films!     + bits of the One World 2008&...
Posted by One World on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 08:25:00 PST

One World Online Film Streaming Now!

you can watch following films online on the Czech Television Web (only in the Czech Republic): http://www.ceskatelevize.cz/specialy/jedensvet2008/celovecer ni-filmy/   Strach:  &nbs...
Posted by One World on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 08:53:00 PST

Diskutujte o demokracii a zhlednete kratke filmy

  Diskutujte o demokracii Interferenze ItalyAutor: [ vytisknout --lánek ]    [ Poslat e-mailem ] Festival dokumentárních filmu Jeden svet a Ceská telev...
Posted by One World on Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:57:00 PST

Dedicated to Aung San Suu Kyi and the people of Burma

The festival is dedicated to the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and the people of Burma, who are being tyrannized by a brutal military regime  ...
Posted by One World on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 08:34:00 PST

OneWorld presents video and film productions by NGOs

Since its inception, one specific facet of One World has been the fact that it is not just a place where filmmakers and people interested in film can come together, but that it is also a meeting place...
Posted by One World on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 08:30:00 PST