One World
international documentary film festival
Wednesday – Sunday, 29. 1. - 2. 2. 2014

Jeden svet - VeľvyslanecWhen we killed the god, will we kill our neighbor, too? Can we still get along? If the world is in crisis, aren’t we in even deeper one? One World festival offers over thirty films reflecting status of a human in today society. The main programme is accompanied with thematical activities dedicated to issues of tolerance and state vs. corporations. Discussions, lectures, commented projections, children games or a concert. This year, we are going into the realms of fiction films, as well. And if you are a student or a teacher, book your morning school projection with discussions and lectures. They will take place a week before and after the festival.

Add meetings, conversations and audience and the festival is complete.

The films are projected in original voice with Slovak or Czech subtitles. Films which are friendly to non-Slovak speakers (they are in English or with English subtitles) are marked red. Program subject to change.

The festival is organized in cooperation with People in Peril NGO.

www.jedensvet.sk

Admission:
Festival pass: 12.00 / 8.00 € (adults / students)
One projection: 2.00 €

Wednesday 29th January

Kampaňeros4.00pm Kampaňeros - Peter Važan / Slovak Republic / 2013 / 71 min.
No one can give you as much as politicians promise. Proclaiming to possess the truth, they offer security, justice, stability and jobs – as well as tailor-made solutions for any problem. One can never promise or ask for more than during election campaigns. The documentary film Kampañeros (Campaigñeros) captures the atmospehere of the political rallies during the run-up to Slovakia’s parliamentary elections in 2012, recording its highlights. Slovak politicians appear in the leading roles, alongside the artists and members of the public who participated in the rallies.

Hodina dejepisu5.30pm History Class - Dušan Trančík / Slovak Republic / 2011 / 59 min.
June 4, 1920 was the day when the Trianon Treaty was signed. The summer in Versailles, ninety years ago, was a witness to the decomposition of Great Hungary. Together with Germany, Bulgaria and Turkey, the Austro-Hungarian Empire was punished for initiating a war and for wartime expansion. The biggest punishment went to Hungary. While for the former Czechoslovakia, and for Slovakia in particular, the Trianon Treaty had a principal and existential significance as a fulfillment of the idea of “nations’ right for self-determination,“ for Hungarians it has meant violation of justice and confirmation of annexation of a vast territory inhabited exclusively by Hungarians.

Arcibiskup s ľudskou tvárou6.30pm Archbishop with Human Face - Petr Minařík / Czech Republic / 2012 / 52 min.
A portrait of an extraordinary man in an ordinary world: A miracle is postponed, but a punishment comes right away. Bezák, thanks to his naturalness, touches the hearts of people of many generations, as he can formulate significant messages in a simple manner, and soon becomes a thorn in his own Catholic Church hierarchy’s side. Why? Maybe because his ability to spread the word of Gospel surmounts the one of his Church colleagues. On the 2nd of July 2012, archbishop Bezák is removed from his office, what makes this an unprecedented step in the history of the Catholic Church in the Central Europe. There are no reasons given, the counterparty remains silent. His effort to present a human face of the Church hit the stereotype mechanisms in the Church’s way of thinking and acting. However, the story of Robert Bezák, now an emeritus archbishop, isn’t over yet.

Věra 688.00pm Věra 68 - Olga Sommerová / Czech Republic / 2012 / 90 min.
This portrait of a former sporting champion, who during the Prague Spring in 1968 did not hesitate to become involved in the protest movement and later paid a cruel price, was filmed by director Olga Sommerová. Czechoslovak gymnast Věra Čáslavská collected an incredible 140 medals in top class competitions. In 1968, she was declared World Sportswoman of the Year, winning popularity at home and abroad. However, due to her signature of The Two Thousand Words manifesto critical of the communist regime, her career took a nosedive and she was persecuted for many years. In 1989, she served as an advisor to Václav Havel before again withdrawing from the limelight following a family tragedy. At the age of 70, she decided to return to public life.

Bahájska vieraBaháji v IránePOLIS foundation, Mariánske square 31, Žilina
4.30pm Meaning of life by bahai faith - discussion
The discussioners will be Venus Jahanpour, Pavel Kordoš – members of Bahai community SR and journalist Andrej Bán.
+ Iranian taboo - Reza Allamehzaedeh / Iran / 2011 / 78 min.

Thursday 30th January

Leto s Antonom4.00pm Summer with Anton - Jasna Krajinovic / Belgicko / 2012 / 61 min.
Anton Belakov is 12 years old. For any boy his age, summer should be a time of new experiences, discoveries and fun. But like 60% of Russian children, Anton has decided to spend the summer at the Kaskad school, a military boot camp like countless others that have sprung up since Putin’s rise to power. Physical conditioning, prayer, barracks banter, weapons training, anti-Chechen propaganda sessions: filmmaker Jasna Krajinovic takes an unflinching look at youth being moulded for war. Co-produced by the Dardenne brothers, Un été avec Anton is both superbly constructed and utterly terrifying. It is like staring into the face of a future in the process of collapsing

Naši5.00pm Putin’s Kiss - Lise Birk Pedersen / Denmark / 2012 / 58 min.
In Russia, mass movements and demonstrations are not the exclusive property of the opposition. Putin’s followers have also organised themselves into a patriotic movement, with leaders and youth camps. It also holds demonstrations – especially at the same time and place as expected opposition protests. This film looks at the nature of the “Nashi” pro-government mass movement. Using the example of young and ambitious Masha Drokova, a Nashi commissar’s assistant, the documentary observes the movement’s modern, positive and patriotic face. However, by watching Nashi demonstrations and meetings as well as hearing the testimony of opposition leader Ilya Yashin and well-known blogger Oleg Kashin, it also shows the other face of the movement, which is violent, nationalistic and seditious.

6.00pm (Neo)Nacionalism in politics - discussion
Extrem solutions are widely popular in Europe. What is the way from manifesting nationality up to crisis solution and cleaning out the “unadaptables”? Is Kotleba a solution when Slota failed?

Život a smrť v Tanvalde8.00pm Life and Death in Tanvald - Vít Klusák, Filip Remunda / Czech subtitles / 2013 / 52 min. / english subtitles
A documentary detective story in which the filmmakers set out in search of Czech xenophobia. Instead of a main square, the town of Tanvald has parking lots and supermarkets. The winters here are colder than in the rest of the country. The year 2012 began with a tragedy. An hour and a half after midnight, a local retiree shot a young 22-year-old man. Was it justified self-defense? The case would not have aroused much passion – except that the young man was a Roma and the shooter a gadjo. What is more, this is a town of empty textile factories, extreme unemployment, and low tolerance. The filmmakers began shooting a few days after the tragic shooting.

Friday 31th January

Príbeh hacktivistov4.00pm We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists - Brian Knappenberger / USA / 2012 / 95 min.
In the period of the Arab Spring and the Occupy movement, an incognito group of internet activists going by the name Anonymous seemed omnipresent. We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists explores “the maturation” of an internet community shaped by its battle with the Church of Scientology, acts of retaliation against large companies and support for bloggers by helping them get around a blocked internet in Arab countries. The film raises questions about the origin of the group, maps the individual causes that shaped the movement and tracks the consequences of its campaigns, both for its opponents and members who have been exposed and legally punished. Actors in key events who agreed to make their identities public offer insight into the individuals hidden behind the reductive term “hacker”.

Skutočná sociálna sieť6.00pm The Real Social Network - 
Isis Thompson, Ludovica Fales, Srdjan Keca / UK / 2011 / 77 min.
Social networking sites have radically transformed the possibilities of street protest. The Real Social Network maps one of the first big events exemplifying the phenomenon. At the end of 2010, the coalition government in the UK decided to raise university fees, making third-level education in the country among the most expensive in Europe. In doing so, they provoked the biggest student demonstrations seen in the country in 40 years. After the revolutions in the Arab world and worldwide protests for social justice, students organised demonstrations and blockades in which social networking sites played a very large role.

Veľvyslanec7.30pm
Ambassador - Mads Brügger / Denmark / 2011 / 94 min. mixed language .- mostly english
In the style of a spy film, Danish journalist and filmmaker Mads Brügger uncovers illegal trading in diamonds and diplomatic passports in Africa. Posing as a wealthy businessman, he approaches a group that is willing, for a fee, to procure for him the diplomatic cover of one of Africa’s unstable states. With their assistance, he enters the Central African Republic as a Liberian diplomat. A round of meetings with government representatives, fellow diplomats and traders – recorded on a hidden camera – leads to a deal with the owner of a diamond mine. Brügger employs an exceptional documentary method, placing himself in the role of one of the actors. At the same time, however, his paranoia and fears grow – he has become part of a game in which virtually no value is placed on human life

9.00pm Saturday night fever with a Symball band…

Dajte nám peniazeArtforum bookstore, Mariánske square 11
5.00pm Give Us the Money
- Bosse Lindquist / SWE / 2012 / 58 min

Ethiopia suffered extreme famine in the mid-1980s. Images of starving people at death’s door were broadcast around the world, prompting famous musicians Bob Geldof and Bono Vox to organise a huge charity concert called Live Aid. Director Bosse Lindquist sets out on the trail of the engaged celebrities who decided to do something in the fight against poverty. Their fame helped a hitherto marginal issue acquire a global dimension. The film maps their activities in the field of humanitarian and development aid and reveals the background to the successful worldwide campaigns Drop the Debt and Make Poverty History. The film looks for an answer to the eternal question: What is the correct way to help?

Saturday 1st February

Statočné srdcia2.00pm Bravehearts - Kari Anne Moe / Norway, SWE / 2012 / 118 min.
Director Kari Anne Moe’s original aim was to capture the essence of the political scene in Norway, regarded as the world’s most sophisticated democracy. Over the period of a year, she followed the lives of four active students from different political parties who decided to stand in student elections. However, in midsummer 2011, the stories of Johanne, Haakon, Sana and Henrik are impacted by the self-styled “defender of European traditions” Anders Breivik, who murders dozens of young members of the Norwegian Labour Party on the island of Utøya. His horrific act, fuelled by years of frustration with Norwegian society’s multicultural direction and bolstered by a hatred of Muslims, rocked the country.

Dúhový šampionát4.00pm Gay ChampionsNicolaas Veul, Tim den Besten / NL / 2012 / 48 min.
Two young Dutch journalists head to Kiev with a camera for Ukraine’s first gay pride parade. From the parade organisers, they learn about the homophobia that reigns in the country. The vast majority of Ukrainians consider homosexuality to be an illness, and gays and lesbians have to keep their private life hidden. In front of the shocked journalists, this aversion to gays and lesbians is also underlined by a representative of the church. Recently, increasing emphasis has also been placed on traditional values and on the notion that homosexuality is Western propaganda, which should be banned. Restrictive legislation is even being prepared for this purpose. That’s precisely why Ukrainian gay pride activists are organising the event just before the European Football Championship, being held in Ukraine in 2012.

Vrah z povolania – Utrpenie sudcu Karla Vaša5.00pm
Murderer by vocation - The Suffering of Judge Vaš
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 Jan Bělohlavý / Czech republic / 2013 / 83 min
As a leading judge in Communist Czechoslovakia, Karel Vaš (1916-2012) ordered over 20 innocent people to be executed and sentenced hundreds to life imprisonment. He exceptionally agreed to talk on camera with the authors, where he explains his motivation based in the fanatical belief in bolshevism. Karel Vaš also comments on the mass murders of Germans within Czechoslovak territory. He was Deputy Chief of Czechoslovak Military Intelligence in 1945, and was responsible for the biggest post-WWII massacre in Europe in Postelberg in the summer of 1945. There, gunmen trained personally by Karel Vaš killed over 1,000 German civilians. During the 1960s and 1970s, Karel Vaš established for himself an academic career at Charles University. Even by his death at the age of nearly 97 in Prague in 2012, he was never punished, and received a retirement pension doubling that of the average Czech senior.

Po zemi, po mori7.00pm Po zemi, po mori - Hark-Joon Lee, Dongkyun Ko, Hein S. Seok / Southern Korea / 2011 / 52 min.
North Korean refugee Songgook is slowly building a new life in South Korea. However, his pregnant wife still has family in the DPRK. Songgook decides to organise their escape. He travels to China and undertakes a dangerous night-time journey to the Tumen River which runs along the border, where he meets his wife’s family. They then set off on a journey on a borrowed fishing boat to the dangerous international waters between China and South Korea, where they are to meet a South Korean pastor and hand over the refugees. However, the plan runs into problems in the form of bad weather and South Korean coastal patrol. It refuses to help the tired Songgook, who has spent nearly 50 hours in a boat full of water.

Tábor 148.00pm Camp 14 -Total Control ZoneMarc Wiese / D / Southern Korea, 2012, 104 min (english subtitles)
Shin Dong-Hyuk was born in a North Korean concentration camp to parents who were married on the orders of wardens. At the age 23, by a virtual miracle he managed to escape and reach South Korea. His descriptions of camp rules, the zero value placed on human life and the torturous practices of the guards are chilling. However, perhaps even worse is the disfigurement of the human spirit, which cannot recover as easily as wounds to the body. Dong-Hyuk has lived in freedom for six years, but his spirit remains imprisoned in a North Korean camp, in a world where informing on one’s parents in exchange for a bigger portion of food is normal; where the whim of wardens decides life and death; and where, despite the horrors he has experienced, Dong-Hyuk longs to return. It is the only world in which he can live.

Zelený tiger sa prebúdzaEkocentrum Lesopark, Univerzitná 2 (near Paľova búda)
5.00pm Waking the Green Tiger: A Green Movement Rises in China - Gary Marcuse / CAN / 2011 / 78 min.
Poorly informed and influenced by local propaganda, farmers in southwest China don’t seem to have a problem with leaving their homes due to the construction of a reservoir. Yunnan province has experienced similar gigantic projects on the nearby Mekong and Nujiang rivers. However, thanks to the environmental movement which maps the terrible impact of such an intervention and warns villagers against it, construction on the upper stream of the Yangtze River meets unexpected resistance. The massive devastation of Chinese natural wealth has occurred in various forms under the pretext of endless progress that dates back to Mao’s Cultural Revolution. The film shows that environmental activism is finally awakening, even in China.

Prekliatie prírodných zdrojov+
+ The Resource Course
- Vincent Bruno / Belgicko / 2012 / 26 min.
The numerous natural resources of Southern countries are exploited by Nothern countries and their companies without the dividends to allow any socio-economic development in the South. These resources – which the global economy relies on – are a curse for the populations of the South.

Sunday 2nd of February

Úžasný Azerbajdžan!2.00pm Amazing Azerbaijan!
- Liz Mermin / UK / 2012 / 60 min. mixed language – half English
Azerbaijan is like a dynamic eagle that naturally links the cultures of the West and East – that is how the state and local representatives attempt to portray the country internationally. Skyscrapers are growing in a country rich in oil, Azerbaijan has joined the UN Security Council and President Ilham Aliyev presses the flesh with some of the world’s most important statesmen. When an Azerbaijani duet wins the apolitical Eurovision song contest, the president declares the victory a national success. Amazing Azerbaijan! is the story of a country with two faces. International observers say that behind the shiny façade hides a repressive and corrupt regime that severely suppresses free speech. The state shows opponents no mercy.

3.30pm North of the Sun - Inge Wegge, Jørn Nyseth Ranum / Nórsko / 2012 / 46 min.
Inge and Jørn are not your typical surfers. They have decided to experience a truly deep connection with the water and nature. For nine months, the two have been based on a deserted beach on an island off the coast of Norway, far beyond the Arctic Circle, where they have found not only perfect waves, but also a large quantity of washed-up waste. Their plan is to stay until they collect at least a tonne of the rubbish the sea deposits on the beach every day. Their perfect lifestyle as responsible surfers is completed by the fact that they live on out-of-date food while their van runs on reused oil.

Zachovať si tvár4.30pm Saving Face - Daniel Junge, Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy / USA / 2011 / 52 min.
Every year, hundreds of women in Pakistan become the victims of brutal acid attacks in which their faces and bodies are burned. The aggressors are most often their husband or his family, and the reasons are usually petty. The victims bear the consequences until the end of their lives, while the attackers frequently live without punishment, guilt or the condemnation of society. An Oscar winner in the category Best Documentary Short.

5.00pm Sinful Vegan Sunday
February Vegan Sunday could be entitled „Sinful”. Are you asking why? Because this time, we have decided to focus on FAST FOOD! Get ready for hamburgers, french fries, dressings and other fried and tasty meals which we secretly adore - but free of disgusting raw material which can be found at McDonalds, KFC and so on. Come and see for yourself that fast food does not have to be only the privilege of worldwide corporations and fishy food stands at the main train station but it is also possible to cook fast food in a vegan way and moreover - tastfully!

Zákon džungle6.00pm Law of the Jungle - - Michael Christoffersen / Dánsko / 2013 / 85 min.
In 2008, the government of Peru divided up a large part of the country into smaller territories, selling the rights to their usage to multinational corporations. As tends to be the case, the latter’s interests frequently do not overlap with the needs and rights of the local population. When a Dutch petroleum company begins destroying the environment in which they live, natives from the Amazonian settlement of Andoas protest, occupying the local airport. The locals call for dialogue and everything passes off peacefully, without the use of weapons. That is, until a special armed security unit intervenes and an officer dies during the clash under murky circumstances.

Spôsob zabíjania7.30pm The Act of Killing
Joshua Oppenheimer / Dánsko / Norsko / UK / 2012 / 115 min (english subtitles)

In 1965, the army took power in Indonesia by force. Prior to that, small players in the local underworld, thieves or debt collectors, had been given a task by soldiers: kill communists. Their death squads and regime representatives murdered more than a million alleged communists, ethnic Chinese and intellectuals. Danish filmmakers have now solicited the former leader of these units in an attempt to portray their rampage in a fiction film and document the process. Anwar and his comrades bring the past to life in stylised scenes, celebrating the “liberated” souls of dead communists, dressed as gangsters from 1950s Hollywood movies, interrogating victims or roaming the prairies, mowing down enemies like the conquerors of the Wild West. The murderers joke about their actions on TV and are the celebrated guests of state officials. The Act of Killing offers a chilling insight into the minds of mass murderers and a probe of the society they helped to create.

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