FESTIVALS: One World 2017 Announces Lineup and Other Programmes

22-02-2017

FESTIVALS: One World 2017 Announces Lineup and Other Programmes

By FNE Staff

Communion by Anna Zamecka

PRAGUE: The 19th edition of One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival will screen 121 documentaries in 15 thematic categories from 6 to 15 March 2017. The festival will present unique footage from both sides of the conflict with Islamism.

Twelve films will screen in the International Competition, thirteen films will compete for the Václav Havel Jury Award in the Right to Know section and twelve domestic documentaries were selected in the newly established Czech Competition.

A new thematic category is Vote for Change!, which reflects the growth of populism in the world. Other thematic categories are: Dreams of Europe, Family Happiness, Who's Normal?, Face of the City, Journeys to Freedom, So-called Civilisation, The Power of the Media and Panorama.

The International Competition Jury is composed of: Bruno Dequen, Florencia Santucho, Leena Pasanen and Liang Zhao. The Czech Competition Jury is composed of: Emel Celebi, Veton Nurkollari, Iris Olsson and Barbara Orlicz, while the Václav Havel Jury is composed of: Andrés Cañizalez, Artur Sakunts, María Carrion, Moataz Al-Fegieri and Tetiana Pechonchyk.

Click HERE for more information and the guests list.

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION:

Burma Storybook (Czech Republic, Netherlands, Norway)
Directed by Petr Lom

Communion (Poland)
Directed by Anna Zamecka

Exile (France)
Directed by Rithy Panh

Hissein Habré, A Chadian Tragedy (France, Chad)
Directed by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun

Machines (India, Germany, Finland)
Directed by Rahul Jain

Nowhere to Hide (Norway, Sweden)
Directed by Zaradasht Ahmed

Plastic China (China)
Directed by Jiu-liang Wang

Raving Iran (Switzerland)
Directed by Susanne Regina Meures

The Good Postman (Finland, Bulgaria)
Directed by Tonislav Hristov

The Pearl of Africa (Sweden, Kenya, Thailand, Uganda)
Directed by Jonny Vallström