Despite the possibilities of technology, we still have only one world. The reality of it is many times multiplied, divided, negated, it is contradictory. Even though the global world brings everybody together, the things we know are only a fragment of the global reality.

During the five days we will get you acquainted with the reality of five continents and five main topics - Arab Spring and the global protests, the crisis of capitalism and alternative systems, and catastrophic environmental issues, gender issue, and also own past. More than twenty films, guests and discussions, theater, screenings for schools and especially people and their (our) world.

The program is prepared in cooperation with the civic association People in Peril.

www.jedensvet.sk

Entry:
Full pass: 10,00 / 7,00 € (adults / students)
One action: 1,50 €

23. 1., Wednesday

4pm If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front – Marshall Curry, Sam Cullman / USA / 2011 / 85 minutes / English / Czech subtitles
At the beginning of the 21st century, the term environmental or ecological terrorism became part of the media lexicon. Generally it’s used to describe the actions of radical activists who, in their efforts to protect the environment, overstep acceptable social boundaries. The documentary If a Tree Falls tells the personal story of activist Daniel McGowen. As part of the radical Earth Liberation Front, McGowen participated in arson attacks in many places in the U.S. The film describes the transformation of nonconformist protectors of the environment from demonstration organisers and exponents of passive resistance to active, violent warriors fighting the symbols of environmental devastation. It explores the dilemma one faces in fighting for higher goals, which go beyond the consumer values of today’s world, in a way that is still socially acceptable. The film has been shortlisted for an Oscar in 2012.

6pm Who Killed Natasha? - Myléne Sauloy / UK, RU, FR, Chechnya / 2011 / 64 minutes / Russian / Czech subtitles
Riveting investigative documentary that unravels the connections between the murders of well-known critics of the regimes of Putin in Russia and the puppet government of Kadyrov in Chechnya.

8pm Big as Brno – Vít Klusák, Andran Abranjan, Kristýna Bartošová, Natálie Císařovská, Robin Kvapil, Lukáš Senft, Jan Strejcovský / CZ / 2011 / 63 minutes / Czech
An annual march by neo-Nazis took place in Brno on 1 May last year. In response, an informal group named Brno Blocks was formed, uniting people with the common aim of preventing the march in a non-violent manner. Documentary filmmaker Vít Klusák and six of his students from Prague’s FAMU film school shot various aspects of the events that day.

+ 0800 800 818 - Marcel Pázman / Slovakia / 2011 / 29 minutes

Polis Foundation, discussion, projection
4.30pmShadows of Barbarian Night or The Church fighting totalitarian regime
Discussion about position of church in Czechoslovakia between 1948 -1951, about forms of resist of the churh and believers, about progress of the hidden church and about today church as well. Following guests will be discussing these issues: scientist Norbert Kmeť, film director (Shadows of Barbarian Night) Ondrej Krajňák, bishop of the Czechoslovak Hidden Church, Dušan Špiner. Moderated by Marián Balázs, editor in chief of internet magazine AM Report.

Screening of the movie Shadows of Barbarian Night will be part of the event.

24. 1., Thursday

4pm The Prism GR2011 - KRISIS - Nikos Katsaounis, Nina Maria Paschalidou / Grécko / 2011 / 62 min. / English and Greek / Slovak subtitles
Greek police shot and killed a 15-year-old student Alexandros Grigoropoulos in Athens in December 2008. His death unleashed mass protests both in Greece and several other European countries. However, the protracted financial and social crisis was perhaps a deeper reason for unrest. At the beginning of 2010, 14 photographers and cameramen tried to capture the scene from their own perspectives. To track how the general mood and economic circumstances changed in recent years, they conducted interviews in every corner of the country, with elderly, Egyptian refugees, truck drivers, political scientists, historians, and others. The result is a colorful patchwork of opinions whose common denominator is frustration with politics, failing public institutions, debt and destroyed landscapes. At the close of the film, an Athens art professor says the need to create something new always comes from hunger, not a full belly; the crisis is a good thing.

6pm discussion Market without banks, human rights without democracy?

8pm Radioactivists - Protest in Japan since Fukushima - Julia Leser, Clarissa Seidel / D / 2011 / 72 min. / Japanese / Czech subtitles
The name of the movie encapsulates two themes energising the land of the rising sun: radioactivity, which is linked to the tragedy in Fukushima, and the active expression of disagreement with the organisation, values, and evolution of contemporary Japanese society.

25. 1., Friday

4pm Back to the Square – Petr Lom / Nórsko, Kanada / 2012 / 83 min. / English / Czech subtitles
The joy, pride and sense of community experienced during the revolution in Egypt was replaced by the everyday fight for survival. How did the transformation impact the lives of citizens? Employing the documentary essay form, director Petr Lom considers the character and depth of the revolutionary changes. He interviews not only opponents and supporters of the revolution, but also the bystanders. A guide at the pyramids, a minibus driver who refused to transport the arrested to prison, the wife of a wrongly accused man, a young girl stigmatised in her village for taking part in the uprising, the brother of an imprisoned blogger – all gradually paint a complex and unhappy portrait of post-revolutionary Egypt. The revolution has not managed to overthrow a system of repression rooted in both state organs and interpersonal relationships.

6pm Zero Silence – Jonny von Wallström, Alexandra Sandels / Sweden / 2011 / 57 min. / Mainly English / Czech subtitles
In 2011, citizens of Arab countries took to the streets to fight for their rights. This film is comprised of several participants’ stories – young people who could no longer remain silent. It starts in Tunisia, where the Arab Spring was ignited by the self-immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi, who set himself alight in protest at the regime. Lilia, who took part in the Tunisian demonstrations, recounts bloody clashes with police; it is her belief the revolution began because people no longer were afraid to express themselves. The story of the “Twitter Revolution” in Egypt is told by blogger Wael, photographer Hossam, and journalist Imran, who epitomise the crucial role played by new media. After the protests in Tunisia and Egypt, people also took to the streets in Lebanon. This documentary delivers a comprehensive overview of the uprisings in the three states and shows how the individual protests shared a surprising number of commonalities.

8pmThe Voice of Burma - Turid Rogne / Norway / 2011 / 64 min. / Czech subtitles
Reporters of exil radio watch memorable parliament elections in Burma 2011.

+ Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark - May Ying Welsh / Qatar / 2011 / 51 min. / Mainly English / Czech subtitles
Last year’s protests in Bahrain followed close on the heels of uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt. In the same vein as earlier demonstrations, demands included freedom, political participation, and modern citizenship. In early March, a day before the beginning of NATO’s intervention in Libya, they were also the first demonstrations to be suppressed. The Al-Jazeera television station recorded a secret documentary about these protests. The main theme is the accompanying phenomenon of the Arab Spring, the so-called “counter-revolution” and the techniques used to control the population, i.e. giving arms to agents, acts of state terrorism, manipulative media campaigns, and divisively splitting society. On the other hand, doctors who provided assistance without exception testify to the fact that the protests in Bahrain were neither religious nor ethnic in nature.

Artforum
6pm The New World - Jaan Tootsen / Estonia / 2011 / 59 min. / Estonian / Czech subtitles
When yet another road intended exclusively for cars was opened in the New World district in Estonia in 2006, a group of locals finally ran out of patience. After staging a protest with respirators and gas masks that prevented a ceremonial procession to open this road, cycling activist

26. 1., Saturday

2pm Belarussian Dream – Jekaterina Kibalčič / Russia / 2011 / 50 min. / Russian / Slovak subtitles
The film provides a unique, close-up perspective on the totalitarian practices of Belarus’s state agencies, which are not afraid to make use of media propaganda, the secret police, threats, and show trials.

+ Made in Berdsk - Charles Maynes, Andrey Babaev, Masha Eismont / Russia / 2011 / 36 min. / Russian / Slovak subtitles
In Russia, where managed transfers of power are common practice, the inhabitants of this small Siberian city decide to show that democracy can work for them.

4pm theatre
Vojta Švejda: Arktický Robinson
Adventurous performance for kids about polar pioneers, eskimos and life filled with snow.

More details in the article Vojta Švejda: Arctic Robinson.

5.30pm Bear Islands – Martin Ryšavý / Czech rep. / 2010 / 62 min. / Russian / Czech subtitles
Bear Islands are located in the East Siberian Sea. The camera follows park rangers who take care of the nature reserve as they travel to an isolated polar station through the vast space where the past meets the present. A portrait of a landscape, its history and people who inhabit it.

7pm Tomáš Rafa: New nationalizmus
Presentation of long-term project mapping and observing thin line between patriotism and nationalism, expressions of rasism and xenophoby in the background of demonstrations, blockades, demonstrations and everyday life in Europe.

9pmFragile Identity - Zuzana Piussi / Slovak, Czech republic / 2012 / 75 min. / Slovak / English subtitles
In Fragile Identity, Slovak director Zuzana Piussi examines her fellow countrymen’s current notions of nationality. She expresses her concern that Slovak national sentiment is rather fragile and liable to political misuse. The protagonists often reject the leading Czech figures of Czechoslovak history and prefer to look for their roots in the common “pre-national“ past of Great Moravia. Although many of the stories are rather tragicomic, the turbulent developments in the EU have shown that the search for one’s own identity is a sensitive matter not only in Slovakia.

27. 1., Sunday

2pm The Carrier - Maggie Betts / USA / 2011 / 88 min. / original language / Czech subtitles
An intimate portrait of family in rural Zambia that is caught in the trap of incurable AIDS.

3.30pm To the Light - Yuanchen Liu / China, USA / 2011 / 69 min. / Chinese / Czech subtitles
For a long time, China has been one of the world’s biggest producers and consumers of coal. Seventy percent of its energy comes from coal-fired power plants. The flipside of China’s economic boom is best encapsulated by the situation in local mines, where each year about 20,000 miners die in accidents.

+ Into Oblivion - Šimon Špidla / Czech republic / 2011 / 52 min. / Russian / Czech subtitles
Stalin’s prisoners and slawery works on construction of transpolar railway route.

6pm Special Flight - Fernand Melgar / Switzerland / 2011 / 103 min. / French / Czech subtitles
Switzerland has a reputation as a stable, prosperous country where citizens make a significant contribution to the running of the whole society. That may be one reason it is a popular destination for refugees and migrants, although local legislation is far from welcoming. Under Swiss law, anyone without a permanent residency permit can be arrested at any time, held for two years and then be expelled and sent back to their country of origin on so-called “special flights.” Award-winning director Fernand Melgar visited a detention centre near Geneva to record, without commentary or explanation, what goes on behind its walls surrounded by high fences. Winner of the main prize of the Czech festival One world.

8pm The Kingdom of Mister Edhi - Amélie Saillez / Belgium, Spain / 2011 / 82 min. / Pakistani / Czech subtitles
Film tells the fascinating story of Abdul Sattar Edhi and his wife, Bilquis. The couple, from the Pakistani city of Karachi, built a network of social and healthcare facilities in this Islamic country. With unflagging energy, they wage battle against prejudice and the rigidity of Pakistan’s patriarchal society.