Competition categories and juries

Special guests

Inauguration of the Human Rights Film Network (HRFN)

Seminar for Festival Organizers

Thematic Blocks

• Reconciling the Past

  This idea originally arose from cooperation with the German human rights film festival Perspektive. The goal of the project is to form a collection of documentary films that would not just show how German society comes to terms with the crimes of Nazism, or how countries of the former Eastern bloc have dealt with the crimes of Communism, but would also offer examples of how other countries are dealing with their pasts concerning human rights violations and crimes against humanity (for example Chile, Rwanda, Serbia, South Africa, Cambodia). Together with festival Perspektive, One World plans to screen these films to secondary school students in the Czech Republic and Germany.
  
  

• Doks for Kids

  Another program section that is new in this year's program is dedicated to films about children and for children between the ages of 10 to 15. The idea grew from cooperation with the Dutch documentary film festival IDFA, which has had long experience in showing documentary films for kids. Some of these films will be later on incorporated into the project „One World at the Schools“.
  
  

• Global South and Global North

  According to some statistics, over one-forth of the world's population (1.3 billion people) live off less than a dollar a day. In sub-Saharan Africa alone the number of people living off this tiny amount has climbed to seventy million. Almost eight hundred million people in the world don't have access to health care and the same number of children in the world are illiterate. A billion and a quarter people suffer from a lack of drinking water. Films from this thematic block should familiarize the viewers with different aspects of the growing gap between the „Rich North“ and the „Poor South“. The film The Global Banquet: Politics of Food, deals with the effects of globalization on food production in the world and on how the liberalization of trade pushed by the World Bank has played into the hands of international corporations and destroyed the environment and small farmers in third world countries. The animated film The Luckiest Nut in the World deals, in a entertaining way, with the effects globalization has had on the trade of nuts from Senegal, Bolivia, Mozambique, and the United States. Among the other films that bring a highly critical view of globalization and its impacts is one of the winners at IDFA, Surplus, and the document Carlo Giuliani, a Boy, which reconstructs in detail the story of the death of a young demonstrator during the anti-globalization protests in Genoa in July 2001.
  
  

• Dying at Grace

  It is often neglected that apart from the right to live, one of the most profound human rights is also the right to live in dignity until death. As the films from this category demonstrate, it is not always easy to achieve this, even in our privileged Western Hemisphere. The importance in life of unflinching optimism and a good mood is convincingly shown in the documentary Hugo and Rose, which shows one hundred year-old siblings happily living in their home in the Swedish countryside. A special jury prize winner from the Sundance festival, a Certain Kind of Death, captures in detail the fate that awaits the dead body and the personal belongings of those who die alone. This section will also feature the newest release of the legendary Canadian cinema verité filmmaker Alain King Dying at Grace.
  
  

• Accepting Otherness

  This year One World will again present a collection of outstanding documentaries about those who are marked by majority society as „others.“ Films in this section are about the search for identity, about people at the margins, and about those whose background or orientation is complex or misunderstood. This is, for example, the case of the main character in a British documentary Sunny Intervals and Showers, which tells the story of doctor Alan Levi, who after being diagnosed with a manic depression disorder loses his work and even his family. In this section there is also the Czech documentary from Olga Sommerova Mana Ten Years After, which presents the notorious repeat offender Mana, who is not able to escape from the endless circle of imprisonment, short periods of freedom, petty crimes and repeated imprisonment.
  
  

• Special Report

  This years Special Report films are: Harry Woo — The Witness; Putin's Roadmap for Russia and Chechnya; Anger and Fury of the Urban Underclass; Burma - The Land of Fear; Focused on India; Socialismo o Muerte; The Other America; Wild East; Migrant Tales; and The Life after Abuse
  
  

• Jury members´ films

  It is a One World tradition to show one or two of the films of the Grand Jury members. Czech filmmaker Helena Trestikova will be represented by her film Hitler, Stalin and I. Patricia Guzman will introduce his masterpiece Battle for Chile documenting the violent overthrow of Chilean president Allende and the taking of the power by the military junta. A more recent chapter of Chilean history is captured in his recent film Case Pinochet. Acclaimed Polish filmmaker and winner of numerous festival awards, Marcel Lozinski, will be represented by his film Anything Can Happen. One of the founding fathers of direct cinema, Robert Drew, will be represented by a few films in the Cinema Verite retrospective section, but he will also present his more recent work, the film For Auction: An American Hero. Nick Broomfield chose to be represented at the One World by his newest film, Aileen — Life and Death of a Serial Killer. Prague rap fans won't want to miss the opportunity to see another of his films, Biggie and Tupac.
  
  
  

PSAs

Visegrad Highlights

Retrospectives

• Direct Cinema/Cinema Verite

  One World 2004 will present a retrospective of documentary film from the direct cinema/cinema verite style. One of the key figures of direct cinema is a member of the main panel of judges Robert Drew, whose film Primary about the presidential race between Kennedy and Humphrey is considered to be one of the first works of direct cinema. Another treat for film connoisseurs will be the classic Canadian documentary and leading figure of direct cinema Allan King Warrendale (proof that even film can be used as a therapeutic tool) and two films from the well known French filmmaker Jean Rouch — Les Maitres Fous and Chronique d´un été. Viewers can also look forward to the film from director Beryl Fox The Mills of the Gods, which due to its content and form tremendously influenced public opinion about the Vietnam War (the filmmakers filmed bombed-out villages from the air and later went to talk to the people from the village). From the collection of the Mayles brothers, one of their most well known films will be shown, Salesman, which tells the story of four traveling Bible salesmen.
  
  

• Winning Hearts and Minds

  In cooperation with the National film archives we have prepared a retrospective of war propaganda films, which will be accompanied by debates and seminars. Along with the propaganda film of Leni Riefenstahl Triumph of Will about the meeting of Hitler's NSDAP, there will be presented the short documentary of John Ford's The Battle of Midway, which the director made at Roosevelt's request in 1942 for American mothers. Other films from American war propaganda from the time of the Second World War is Frank Capra's well known series Why We Fight (The Battle of Britain), for American soldiers and filmed in cooperation with composer Alfred Newman and Dmitri Tiomki. Animated maps from the films of Walt Disney will also be shown. From an entirely different point-of view comes the famous film In the Year of the Pig, in which director Emilio de Antonio so angered Richard Nixon that he quickly found himself on a list of his enemies. Striking images from the Vietnam War, which include the well-known images of a Buddhist monk setting himself on fire, and a great soundtrack from John Cage helped to form this cult classic, whose style influenced Andy Warhol. It even received acclaim from American critics, which nominated the film for the Oscars. An interesting view of the First World War is shown in the documentary Heroic Cinematograph, which incorporates archival material and journal entries of a French and German cameraman.
  
  
  

Human Rights in Fiction

Educational screenings

One World video library

Other accompanying events