One World
photo: (jedensvet.cz)
One of the most significant and also biggest film festivals One World, which deals with human rights issues, will offer more than 106 films from 40 countries this year. The main part of what is already the 14th year of the festival will be held in Prague from 6 to 15 March, with regional festivals in 40 cities of the Czech Republic to follow in March and April.
The center of the Prague festival will be the
Lucerna cinema, as is traditional. Visitors can watch more films in the cinemas
Světozor and
Evald,
Municipal Library,
Ponrepo and in the
French Institute. Tickets for the individual films can be purchased in all cinemas for CZK 80.
This year, the One World Festival will focus on protests and disturbances going on in various parts of the world. Although the aims of the protests in Bahrain, Greece or the USA are very different, they all have one thing in common: young people wanting a change of the establishment.
The main thematic category of the One World Festival is therefore called Protests, disturbances, rebellion. Apart from the events in the Arab world, which are well-known from the media, you will also see e.g. young Japanese who, in strict opposition of the traditions in their country, marched into the streets after the accident in Fukushima, or the radical American ecologists who ended up in prison as terrorists. Other categories include the category With or Without You featuring social themes, and the category So-called Civilisation will offer documents dealing with environmental issues.
The One World Festival is organised under the auspices of the 1st vice chairman of the Czech government and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Karel Schwarzenberg, Alena Hanáková from the Ministry of Culture, and Bohuslav Svoboda, the Mayor of the Capital City of Prague.