Special Award for the film with the most outstanding contribution to human rights awareness presented by the President of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Havel

The reason why I selected this film out of so many wonderful documentaries is that it not only offers vivid testimony to the false, deceitful and insidious power of the spoken word to arouse the darkest emotions in people, but it also shows how appeals to ethnic origin, nationality or tribalism is able to make people kill others. At the same time, this film shows the very interesting, gigantic and ambiguous role of mass media in today's world. Mass media can transmit solidarity among nations and continents. Thanks to the media we know what happened in Rwanda a few years ago. But at the same time the media was able to provoke an enormous crime. And that is what this film is about. It shows how a radio station started the civil war in Rwanda and caused hundreds ofthousands of deaths. (Statement by Vaclav Havel)

WHY DID THEY KILL THEIR NEIGHBOURS? Kumiko Igarashi, Japan

Rwanda's Hutu butchered at least 800.000 Tutsis during the civil war in 1994. This documentary focuses on a young man who was forced by fellow villagers to murder his own sister´s children, and returned to his village to confront his crimes.