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Current AffairsOne World festival - pricking consciences through documentary film
Cinemagoers packed Prague's Lucerna and Svetozor cinemas on Wednesday for
the launch of the One World festival of human rights documentary films.
The festival - run by the Czech NGO People in Need - is now in its ninth
year, and has grown over the years into a major fixture on the Czech
cultural calendar. More
PanoramaStories of Injustice - those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it
It's just a few weeks now before November 17th, the seventeenth anniversary
of the beginning of the Velvet Revolution, when peaceful demonstrations by
hundreds of thousands of people brought the country's communist regime to
its knees. Seventeen years on, coming to terms with the past is still
difficult. One problem is the country's schoolbooks, which give only the
briefest glimpse of the indignities and cruelties of the communist era.
But the Czech NGO People in Need is trying to change all that.
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ArtsEric Bergkraut and his award-winning film, "Coca: The Dove from Chechnya"
On Thursday evening, the closing ceremonies of Prague's One World
documentary film festival honoured Swiss director Eric Bergkraut's film,
"Coca: The Dove from Chechnya" with the Rudolf Vrba Award, for
the best film in the category of Right to Know. Now in its 8th year, this
year the One World festival screened 118 films from 40 different
countries. During the festival Eric Bergkraut spoke to me about his film,
and why he chose to feature Chechnya in his latest documentary.
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ArtsOne World: Raising Human Rights Awareness through Film
During the past eight days Prague inhabitants have had a chance to see a
number of good documentary films from different parts of the world. The
One World human rights film festival which is organized by the Czech
charity organization People in Need has again featured many documentaries
bringing from different crisis spots worldwide, reminding us that our
comfortable life here in the Czech Republic is not a matter of course
everywhere in the world. More
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Current Affairs"One World" human rights' documentary film festival opens in Prague
On Wednesday the seventh year of the human rights' documentary film
festival "One World" began in Prague. It is organized by the
Czech humanitarian organization "People in Need", and over seven
days it will feature 120 documentary films from 35 countries.
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One on OneMatej Cerny from People in Need - hoping for change in Cuba
In this week's One on One, Rob Cameron speaks to Matej Cerny, who works for
the Czech Republic's best known humanitarian aid group People in Need. The
organisation is involved in campaigns in various countries around the
globe, such as Chechnya, Afghanistan and most recently Cuba.
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Current AffairsOne World - human rights film festival
Next Wednesday, the 6th annual International Human Rights Documentary film
festival begins in Prague. Last year, Jeden Svet or One World attracted
22,500 people. With 156 screenings, festival organizers hope to see 60,000
visitors at the various venues around the city this year. Dita Asiedu
reports:
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ArtsOne World festival
The Arts: this week looking at the One World festival - an international
celebration of documentary film - and at an English speaking competition for
Czech secondary school students.
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