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: 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
Mandy Jacobson, Karmen Jelinèiæ | USA | 1995 | 61min. | Documentary | Colour | Betaca

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
Stev van Thielen, Annie Arnou | Belgium | 1995 | 25 min. | Documentary | Colour | Betacam

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
Maria José Alvarez and Marta Clarissa Hernández | Nicaragua | 1994 | 42 min. | Documentary | Colour | 16 mm

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
Anne Laure Folly | France | 1997 | 52 min. | Documentary | Betacam

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
Tahani Rached | Canada | 1997 | 90 min | Documentary | Colour | Betacam

Teacher, writer, activist, politician four extraordinary women testify about the tumultuous events they have lived through during their long friendship in Egypt.

Habitual Sadness
Young-Joo Byun | South Korea | 1997 | 71 min. | Documentary | Colour | 35mm

In World War II Japan forced many South-Korean girls into sexual slavery. Today, some of them began testifying...

Sacrifice
Ellen Bruno | USA | 1998 | 50 min | Documentary | Colour | 16mm

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
Antonia Caccia | Palestina | 1996 | 56 min | Documentary | Colour | Betacam

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
Pratibha Parmar, Alice Walker | Great Britain | 1993 | 54 min. | Documentary | Colour | U-matic

In this documentary, the American writer Alice Walker searches for the cultural and historical roots of female circumcision.


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