04-03-2013

FESTIVALS: One World Opens in Prague

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    PRAGUE: The Norwegian documentary Bravehearts by Kari Anne Moe kicks off the One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, which opens today, 4 March 2013, and runs through 13 March in Prague.

    The festival is screening 102 documentary films and two special screenings with films representing over 60 countries. More than 30 directors will be present at the festival and over 100,000 visitors are expected. In 2013, One World films will be screened in Prague and another 40 Czech towns, Brussels, and at over a dozen of countries where the Echoes of One World will be presented in cooperation withlocalCzech Centres.

    Fourteen films, including five films from Denmark and five from the U.K., will screen in the festival’s main competition. They are:

    A World Not Ours, dir. Mahdi Fleifel, Lebanon, UK, Denmark

    Beyond Wriezen, dir.Mahdi Fleifel, Germany

    Black Out, dir. Eva Weber, UK

    Entangled, dir. Lidia Duda, Poland (www.telemark.com.pl)

    My Afghanistan - Life in the Forbidden Zone, dir. Nagieb Khaja, Denmark

    Rent a Family Inc., dir. Kaspar Astrup Schröder, Denmark

    Salma, dir. Kim Longinotto, UK

    The Road: A Story of Life and Death, dir. Marc Isaacs, UK

    The Act of Killing, dir. Joshua Oppenheimer, Denmark

    The Human Scale, dir. Andreas M. Dalsgaard, Denmark

    The Machine Which Makes Everything Disappear, dir. Tinatin Gurchiani, Georgia (Althea Ltd), Germany

    Vojta Lavička: Ups and Downs, dir. Helena Třeštíková, Czech Republic (www.produkcetrestikova.cz)

    When Hari Got Married, dir. Ritu Sarin, Tenzing Sonam, India, UK, USA

    Winter, Go Away!, dirs. Askold Kurov, Elena Khoreva, Denis Klebleev, Dmitry Kubasov, Nadezhda Leonteva, Anna Moiseenko, Madina Mustafina, Sofia Rodkevich, Alexey Zhiryakov, Anton Seregin, Russia