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The main competition includes 15 full-length documentaries made in the last two years which represent the best films entered in One World 2004. As usual, the main competition section will offer gripping stories, powerful testimonies, charismatic personalities, outstanding filmmaking and intriguing reflections on the challenges of our time. Films in this category compete for the Minister of Culture of the Czech Republic Award for the best film and the Best Director Award. Members of the international grand jury are acclaimed filmmakers: Nick Broomfield (Great Britain), Robert Drew (USA), Patricio Guzman (Chile) Marcel Lozinski (Poland), and Helena Trestikova (Czech Republic).
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Juliano Mer Khamis, Danniel Danniel / Israel, Netherlands, Palestine / 2003 / 84 min.
What makes Palestinian boys, who had participated in a theater program led by an Israeli woman, become suicide bombers and fighters against the Israeli army?
screening:
20.4. 20:00 Archa Theatre - small screening room 21.4. 19:30 Archa Theatre 22.4. 19:30 City Library
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Alexander Gutman / Germany, Russia / 2002 / 96 min.
A lyrical documentary about life in the Armenian town of Giumri, which suffered a devastating earthquake in 1988.
screening:
17.4. 17:30 Archa Theatre 20.4. 22:00 Perštýn
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Werner Herzog / Germany / 2003 / 80 min.
The celebrated Buddhist ritual of Kalachakra in a new documentary by Werner Herzog.
screening:
14.4. 19:00 Institut francaise 18.4. 19:30 Archa Theatre
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Erik Gandini / Sweden / 2003 / 52 min.
A visually colorful, compilation-style documentary that offers a critical view of consumer society.
screening:
16.4. 22:00 City Library 20.4. 19:30 Archa Theatre
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Jonathan Karsh / USA / 2003 / 84 min.
A moving film on how to raise 11 adopted children with serious handicaps and not lose a sense of humor.
screening:
15.4. 21:00 Bijásek Kotva 17.4. 19:30 Archa Theatre 20.4. 19:30 City Library 22.4. 19:30 Institut francaise
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Ilan Ziv / France, Israel, USA / 2003 / 52 min.
The examination of the events surrounding the deaths of three young people caught up in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
screening:
17.4. 22:00 Institut francaise 19.4. 17:30 Archa Theatre 21.4. 15:00 Bijásek Kotva
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Elisabeth Chai Vasarhelyi / USA, UK / 2003 / 65 min.
A film capturing the postwar dilemma of a group of young friends trying to decide whether to stay or leave their home in Kosovo.
screening:
16.4. 19:30 Archa Theatre 20.4. 22:00 City Library 21.4. 20:00 Archa Theatre - small screening room
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Peter Hegedus / Australia, Hungary / 2003 / 75 min.
The battle of a charismatic Hungarian fisherman to renew life on the Tisza river, which was contaminated by tons of cyanide that seeped out of a Romanian mine owned by an Australian company.
screening:
19.4. 21:30 Archa Theatre 20.4. 22:00 Archa Theatre - small screening room 21.4. 19:30 City Library
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Anne Lainé / France / 2003 / 52 min.
Ten years after the genocide, Rwandan society is still haunted by a devastating trauma.
screening:
16.4. 17:30 Archa Theatre 20.4. 17:30 Institut francaise 21.4. 22:00 Archa Theatre - small screening room
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Joakim Demmer / Germany, Switzerland / 2003 / 60 min.
A surfer’s paradise on the beaches of Spain becomes a place where many African refugees die while traveling on overcrowded boats in search of a home in dreamed-of Europe.
screening:
17.4. 15:30 Archa Theatre 20.4. 21:30 Evald 22.4. 16:00 Archa Theatre - small screening room
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Lottie Marsau, Katharina Geinitz / Germany / 2003 / 107 min.
A black-and-white reconstruction of the still-unresolved case of ten asylum seekers who were burned alive in Lübeck, Germany.
screening:
15.4. 19:00 Evald 18.4. 17:30 City Library 21.4. 19:30 Institut francaise
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Roberto Berliner / Brazil / 2003 / 84 min.
Three blind sisters who are the subject of a documentary by Roberto Berliner are able to leave their Brazilian slum for a while and manage to get all the way to the stage of a prestigious music festival.
screening:
15.4. 19:30 Archa Theatre 18.4. 19:00 Evald 21.4. 17:30 City Library
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Rithy Panh / France / 2002 / 101 min.
The confrontation of survivors and torturers from one of the most feared Khmer Rouge concentration camps in Cambodia.
screening:
18.4. 15:00 City Library - small screening room 20.4. 18:00 Archa Theatre - small screening room 20.4. 21:30 Archa Theatre 22.4. 19:00 Evald
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Mercedes Moncada Rodriguez / Mexico / 2003 / 76 min.
Opposing poles of contemporary Mexico serve as the backdrop for the tragic fate of a young Indian woman.
screening:
15.4. 20:00 Archa Theatre - small screening room 17.4. 21:30 Evald 19.4. 19:30 Archa Theatre
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Ruthie Shatz, Adi Barash / Israel / 2003 / 85 min.
Seventeen year-old Palestinian Nino and 18- year old Dudu live off prostitution and selling drugs in an infamous part of Tel Aviv known as the Garden.
screening:
15.4. 21:30 Archa Theatre 17.4. 20:00 Archa Theatre - small screening room 17.4. 22:00 Perštýn 20.4. 17:30 City Library
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