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The 6th annual One World international human rights documentary film festival will take place in Prague 14 — 22 April 2004.

Organized by People in Need — Czech TV Foundation, One World has quickly emerged as one of the largest and most important human rights film festivals in Europe and is firmly established as one of Prague's premier cultural and media events.

According to its tradition, the festival is held under the auspices of former president Vaclav Havel, Czech Minister of Culture Pavel Dostal, Mayor of Prague Pavel Bem, the mayors of other participating towns, and the governors of the ten regions.

One World 2004 will present 156 films and videos from around the world, which were chosen from among 950 submitted documentaries. The festival center will be located at the Archa Theater. Other screenings will be held in popular Prague movie theaters: Aero, Evald, Bijasek Kotva, Perstyn, Ponrepo, the French Institute, and the City Library.

The main competition section will offer gripping stories, powerful testimonies, charismatic personalities, outstanding filmmaking, and intriguing reflections on the challenges of our time. The Right to Know category will offer 16 investigative reports on current affairs, human rights, global issues, inside stories, and in-depth coverage that audiences usually cannot find on TV. In the non-competition thematic blocks, the One World 2004 program will present around 50 documentaries divided into the following sections: Reconciling the Past; Global South and Global North; Dying at Grace; Accepting Otherness; Special Reports; Docs for Kids; Visegrad Highlights; Direct Cinema/Cinema Verite; Winning Hearts and Minds; and Human Rights in Fiction.

One World Highlights will be presented at 14 regional centers in the Czech Republic: Brno, Ceske Budejovice, Hradec Kralove, Liberec, Kutna Hora, Olomouc, Ostrava, Pardubice, Plzen, Teplice, Uherske Hradiste, Usti nad Labem, and Roznov pod Radhostem.

One World is a festival dedicated to freedom, justice, and human dignity. Therefore, in addition to filmmakers and film professionals, One World invites to Prague extraordinary personalities, charismatic and brave individuals who dare to be outspoken and active on behalf of freedom, democracy, truth, justice, equal rights and dignity, in most cases at great personal risk. This year's special guests will be Harry Wu, one of the most outspoken critics of Communist China; Natasa Kandic, a prominent human rights activist from Serbia and Montenegro; and Ms. Khin Ohmar, Women's affairs coordinator for the Burma UN Service of National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma (NCGUB) and presidium board member of the Women's League of Burma (WLB). Ohmar is a strong advocate for increased participation of women in the Burmese democracy movement and its decision-making process. Currently, she coordinates the „Women as Peacebuilders Program“ of the WLB.

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