ONE WORLD 99...

ONE WORLD 1999
International Human Rights Film Festival
26. May - 11. June 1999
Prague, Czech Republic
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Evald Cinema, French Institute, MAT Cinema,
Aero Cinema, Municipal Library of Prague

category: HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
The Best of Human Rights Watch Film Festival
 
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Beyond Barbed Wire
Terri DeBono and Steve Rosen | USA | 1997 | 88 min | Documentary | Colour | 35mm

Beyond Barbed Wire celebrates the extraordinary human sacrifice and courage of Japanese-American soldiers in WWII.

Eternal Memory
David Pultz | Canada | 1997 | 81 min | Documentary | Colour | 16 mm

During the 1930s and 1940s, "social engineering" was practiced on a monumental scale in the USSR by the Stalin regime. As a result,: 20 million people died in labor camps, of famine, or in wholesale executions. Eternal Memory movingly recounts this history of loss in the Ukraine.

Gerrie and Louise
Sturla Gunnarsson | Canada | 1997 | 75 min | Documentary | Colour | Betacam

The true story of politically star-crossed lovers --. Gerrie, a colonel in the South African Defense Force, and Louise, a top investigative journalist who is determined to expose him.

An Ordinary President
Yuri Khashchevatsky | Belarus | 1996 | 56 min | Documentary | Colour | Betacam

In this daring political satire from Belarus, black humor pokes fun at the totalitarian presidency of Alexander Lukaschenko, a self-professed admirer of Hitler.

 
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