| ONE WORLD 1999 International Human Rights Film Festival 26. May - 11. June 1999 Prague, Czech Republic ––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Evald Cinema, French Institute, MAT Cinema, Aero Cinema, Municipal Library of Prague |
| category: | VOICE OF WOMEN |
| Branded by Paradise Mari Rodríguez-Ichaso | USA | 1999 | 113 min. | Documentary | Colour | Betacam First documentary to explore the lives of dissident Cuban women in exile, including Fidel Castro`s daughter Alina. Calling the Ghosts The story of two Bosnian women who were raped in a Serbian camp in North West Bosnia. They demand that the perpetrators not go unpunished, and that rape be acknowledged as a war crime. Devil's Children Thousands of Rwandese women have been raped during the genocide of 1994. They speak of their ordeal for the first and maybe the only time. Dreams Not Yet Dreamed A group of Nicaraguan girls hangs out on the street around an open fire. Some sniff glue while they tell about their work experience. The Forgotten The filmmaker explores Angola, a country where war has been rampant for 30 years. We become acquainted in the documentary with "forgotten people": women who are victims of violence and poverty, child soldiers and vagrant children, but also with women who develop initiatives to improve their own situation and that of others. Four Women Of Egypt Teacher, writer, activist, politician four extraordinary women testify about the tumultuous events they have lived through during their long friendship in Egypt. Habitual Sadness In World War II Japan forced many South-Korean girls into sexual slavery. Today, some of them began testifying... Sacrifice With an alternating dreamlike and nightmarish vision, filmmaker Ellen Bruno takes on the issue of child slavery and prostitution focusing on young Burmese girls sold by their families to brothels in Thailand. Stories of Honor and Shame In this heartbreaking and enraging documentary, director Antonia Caccia invites Muslim women in the Gaza Strip to tell the stories of their curtailed lives. Warrior Marks In this documentary, the American writer Alice Walker searches for the cultural and historical roots of female circumcision. |
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