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THE ETERNAL MEMORY

Paulina (51) is an actress, and Augusto (68) is a host of cultural television programs. They have been together for twenty-five years and five years ago he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. From that moment, she integrated him into her work and social routine, creating a new model of life where they are always together. They …

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WE DONʼT DANCE FOR NOTHING – with special subtitles

Captured during a political revolution and pandemic in Hong Kong, this hybrid film combines real events, remembered personal narratives, and staged dances to showcase a vibrant yet oft-forgotten community of Filipina women (200,000 in HK, millions globally), and offer an unseen point of view on events that dominated global headlines. Described as Chris Marker’s La …

LOVING MARTHA – with special subtitles.

Daniela López aims her camera at members of her own family – at her grandmother Martha, who escaped a violent marriage after 39 years, and at the rest of the family, who is struggling not only with that trauma but also with the film project itself.  We invite people with hearing impairments to this screening. …

THE MOLE AGENT

When a family becomes concerned about their mother’s well-being in a retirement home, private investigator Romulo hires Sergio, an 83 year-old man who becomes a new resident – and a mole inside the home, who struggles to balance his assignment with becoming increasingly involved in the lives of several residents. The screening will be held …

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PHOTOPHOBIA

On a cold February morning, 12-year-old Niki and his family arrive at a Kharkiv metro station to take shelter from the terrifying war raging outside. For Nikiʼs family, daylight is synonymous with mortal danger, and the boy is not allowed to leave the station and the ever-present glow of its neon lights. While aimlessly wandering …

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HAPPILY EVER AFTER 

In Happily Ever After, documentarian Jana Počtová explores five stories of people who have decided to seek happiness in relationships that could hardly be considered usual. “What do 21st century relationships look like? Is the monogamous model of a man and a woman still enough? Does love not take more varied shapes than what is  …

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A HAPPY MAN

The true story of man, who for the sake of living truthfully and authentically risks losing what is most precious. The film A Happy Man opens with Czech graphic designer and writer Marvin Horvat reminiscing about his recent past in the Swedish city of Gothenburg, when he was an ordinary Czech woman in a relationship …

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ALL MEN BECOME BROTHERS 

During the liberalization of the 1960s, Alexander Dubček, the leader of the Prague Spring, advocated the idea of “socialism with a human face” that was eventually crushed by Soviet tanks in 1968. In the subsequent all-pervading darkness, Dubčekʼs face became a symbol. In All Men Become Brothers, Slovak director Robert Kirchhoff examines this enduring symbol …

THE WORLD ACCORDING TO MY DAD 

Czech maverick, materials physicist and passionate handyman, RNDr. Jiří Svoboda, CSc., Dsc., has an idea on how to save the planet. But no one will listen to him. His daughter, Marta, a musician and mother of two, is frustrated at this. She takes her camera and ventures “out into the world” with her dad. She …

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INVISIBLE LANDSCAPES

Two musicians, two field recordists and a philosopher venture on a mission to discover the sound of climate collapse. They visit places in the Icelandic and Czech landscapes that have been marked by industry as well as those seemingly left untouched by human activity. Using recording technology, they give voice to the physical places where …

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WHAT DID YOU DO TO THE RUSSIANS? 

The documentary film captures the everyday reality of the Ukrainian nation and the people who depend on the help of others in a country at war. Stories about where humanitarian aid from Slovakia ends and where the daily struggle for life in Ukraine begins. Every week, five trucks leave Slovakia for Ukraine with material aid, …

CRISS CROSS

A friend in need is a friend indeed. Criss Cross is a short story about friendship and betrayal between a birdie, a baby goat, and a fox. We invite people with hearing impairments to this screening. The film includes special subtitles. The second screening will take place on Sunday 5.11. followed by a family-friendly embroidery class. 

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HOW DO YOU MEASURE A YEAR? 

For 17 years, filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt filmed his daughter Ella on her birthday in the same spot, asking her the same questions. In just 29 minutes, we watch her grow from a toddler to a young woman with all the beautiful and sometimes awkward stages in between. Each phase is captured fleetingly but makes an …

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FEST ANČA FOR THE CHILDREN OF ONE WORLD

This year, in collaboration with the international animation festival Fest Anča, One World will present for the first time the latest and best animated films from the last two years of the Fest Anča film selection. The session consists of the internationally acclaimed short films To Be Sisters, Marea, Swing to the Moon, as well …

TO KILL A TIGER 

In a small Indian village, Ranjit wakes up to find that his 13-year-old daughter has not returned from a family wedding. A few hours later, she’s found stumbling home. After being dragged into the woods, she was raped by three men. Ranjit goes to the police, and the men are arrested. But Ranjit’s relief is …

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NOTES FROM EREMOCENE

Taking place in a future that does not yet exist, Notes from Eremocene questions the ideal techno-optimistic model that lies ahead of us. From a curious, playful and critical standpoint, filmmaker Viera Čákanyová explores the potential of blockchain technology and artificial intelligence in dealing with complex global problems wehumans create – climate change and the crisis of representative democracy. Combining diaristic film footage with 3D …

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15×15×5 (MINISALON 1984) 

An essay film on the limits of freedom framed by the story of a unique Czechoslovak artistic experiment from the Normalisation period. In the “Orwellian” year of 1984, artist Joska Skalník distributed wooden boxes around the Czechoslovak art scene with a call for unrestrained artistic play. The resulting works of 244 artists make up the …

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BLIX NOT BOMBS

Greta had just turned 8 years old when she watched the tragic events of 9/11 unfold on her TV in Stockholm. In the following months and years she saw her fellow countryman, diplomat Hans Blix, become a major figure in the global crisis as the chief weapons inspector for the UN. Now, in the 21st …

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TERRITORY OF IMAGINATION

The film explores the image of war in an era of enduring peace. On the background of mass events, which primarily serve as a necessary reminder of historical events, but seem more like bizarre celebrations of war, we engage the viewer in a game of imaginary, in which the notion of war varies across generations. War as …

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TURNUS

The Shift depicts the fates of various people – a truck driver, a care-worker in Austria and a group of manual workers – who face the challenges of demanding week-long work tours. The film reflects on their dreams and desires, but also the sacrifices they have to make while they work in foreign cities and …

THE INVESTIGATOR

Vladimír Dzuro is the first Czech investigator to have worked for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. He collected evidence against war criminals and hunted perpetrators of ethnic cleansing. What is the landscape of the Balkans, a region that saw a conflict twenty-five years ago, like today? What happened to the people who …

ART TALENT SHOW 

Every year, The Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (AVU) holds entrance exams. At three different studios, the film observes a demanding challenge the teachers are facing: how to find the chosen few in the crowds of applicants, the new talents who will be given opportunities to shape the art world in the coming years? …

ARMAT

In this animated documentary, Élodie tries to find out more about her familyʼs Armenian origins. She interviews her father, her uncle, her great aunt, and discovers a harsh history where violence and the inability to express love are passed down from generation to generation. 

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MADELEINE

In this blend of reality and fiction, live action and felted animation two friends born 67 years apart share their life stories every week in a senior homeʼs living room. The younger friend convinces the 107-year-old lady to join her in an adventure: a road trip to the sea. 

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LOVE IS NOT AN ORANGE

In the early 90’s, women left Moldova in large numbers to provide for their families. Unable to return home, they found a peculiar way to stay in touch: sending large cardboard boxes filled with gifts and food you could only dream about in those days. In return, their children would send videotapes. This exchange became …

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THEATRE OF VIOLENCE

Theatre of Violence is a true crime documentary film about Ugandan Defence Lawyer, Kristpus Ayana, who decides to defend the former child soldier, Dominique Ongwen, at one of the world’s biggest legal institutions, The International Criminal Court in The Hague. Charged with crimes against humanity the verdict will set precedent, but the case is also …

WILL YOU LOOK AT ME

As he returns to his hometown, a young Chinese filmmaker searches for himself by talking to his mother, and finally having a long due conversation that will dive them together into a quest for acceptance and love. 

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PURE UNKNOWN

Every night nameless bodies land in Dr. Cristina Cattaneo’s autopsy room. She calls them Pure Unknown. The Pure Unknown belong to the fringes of society. They are homeless, prostitutes, runaway teenagers. Lately, they have mostly been migrants, rejected by the Mediterranean Sea onto the shores of Italy. If all rights belong to the living, nothing is left to the …

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I AM TRYING TO REMEMBER 

I asked: “Why have they erased you?” He said: “Maybe they are scared.” I said: “Whoever is scared, should erase themselves.” He said: “In that case, the faces of the living would all be gone and only the dead would remain.” – “I was born into a decade filled with darkness, full of fear. I …

LOVING MARTHA

Daniela López aims her camera at members of her own family – at her grandmother Martha, who escaped a violent marriage after 39 years, and at the rest of the family, who is struggling not only with that trauma but also with the film project itself.  We invite people with hearing impairments to this screening. …

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WE DONʼT DANCE FOR NOTHING

Captured during a political revolution and pandemic in Hong Kong, this hybrid film combines real events, remembered personal narratives, and staged dances to showcase a vibrant yet oft-forgotten community of Filipina women (200,000 in HK, millions globally), and offer an unseen point of view on events that dominated global headlines. Described as Chris Marker’s La …

TWICE COLONIZED

Renowned Inuit lawyer Aaju Peter has led a lifelong fight for the rights of Indigenous people. When her son suddenly dies, Aaju embarks on a journey to reclaim her language and culture after a lifetime of whitewashing and forced assimilation. But is it possible to change the world and mend your own wounds at the …

A STILL SMALL VOICE

As an aspiring chaplain completes a year-long residency in the spiritual care department of a major New York hospital, she discovers that working with patients requires looking deep within herself. Exploring her own past, her Jewish faith, and her boundaries, she learns what it means – and what it takes – to provide spiritual and emotional care …

A STORY OF BONES

As the Chief Environmental Officer for Saint Helena’s troubled £285m ($360m) airport project, Annina van Neel learned of the island’s most terrible atrocity – an unmarked mass burial ground of an estimated 9,000 formerly enslaved Africans in Rupert’s Valley. It is one of the most significant traces of the transatlantic slave trade still on earth. …

A TASTE OF WHALE

The fjord’s water, surrounded by stunning green mountains, is turning blood red. It is the “grind” season again – Faroe Islanders’ ritual slaughter of pilot whales. Two proud Faroese whalers are on one side, two young and passionate Sea Shepherd activists on the other. A Taste of Whale invites you to see past preconceived positions …

GIRL GANG

A contemporary fairy tale about a 14-year-old influencer from Berlin and her biggest fan. But life as a social media star has a shadow side that the adrenaline, fame and free sneakers can’t make up for.

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BETWEEN THE RAINS

Along the banks of a remote river in northern Kenya lives a Turkana community bearing the brunt of an increasingly unpredictable and harsh climate. The Turkana people are the oldest known historical ethnicity still alive today, and are deeply pastoral. As Kenya grows increasingly barren with access to grazing land and water rapidly shrinking, inevitable conflict and …

A LIFE LIKE ANY OTHER

My father immortalized, in family films, the most beautiful moments of his life, while my mother’s difficulties hit the blind spot in his images. Today, I revisit these films to tell another story: the one about a woman who sees her role as a mother gradually taking away her freedom. (Faustine Cros)  The screening is …

MY IMAGINARY COUNTRY 

One day, without warning, a revolution exploded. It was the event that master documentarian Patricio Guzmán had been waiting for all his life: a million and a half people in the streets of Santiago, Chile, demanding justice, education, health care, and a new constitution to replace the strident rules imposed on the country during the …

MATTER OUT OF PLACE

Waste on the shores, waste on the mountains. On ocean floors and deep down in the earth. Matter Out of Place is a film about rubbish, which has spread across the world, to the most remote corners of the planet. Nikolaus Geyrhalter follows the traces of our rubbish across the planet and sheds light on …

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THE ECHO

In the remote village of El Eco that exists outside of time, the children care for the sheep and their elders. While the frost and drought punish the land, they learn to understand death, illness and love with each act, word and silence of their parents. A story about the echo of what clings to …

FOUR DAUGHTERS 

The life of Olfa, a Tunisian woman and mother of four daughters, oscillates between light and shadow. One day, her two eldest daughters disappear. To fill their absence, director Kaouther Ben Hania calls upon professional actors and sets up an extraordinary film mechanism to unveil the story of Olfa and her daughters. An intimate journey …

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SEVEN WINTERS IN TEHRAN

Tehran, July 2007: Reyhaneh Jabbari, 19, has a business meeting with a new client. When he tries to rape her, she stabs him in self-defense. Later that day, she is arrested for murder. Her trial results in a death penalty sentence. Thanks to personal and secretly recorded videos provided by Reyhaneh’s family, their testimonies and …

BETWEEN REVOLUTIONS

In the 1970s, an Iranian student named Zahra meets a fellow student called Maria at university in Bucharest. They are both pursuing a degree in medicine and develop a deep friendship and admiration for each other. When the revolution against the Shah breaks out in 1979, Zahra goes back to Iran, moved by the hope …

THE MOTHER OF ALL LIES

Young Moroccan filmmaker Asmae el Moudir wants to know why she only has one photograph from her childhood, and why the girl in the picture isn’t even her. She decides to explore the past and its mysteries by creating a handmade replica of the Casablanca neighborhood where she grew up. There, she begins to interrogate …

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KOKOMO CITY

Four Black transgender sex workers explore the dichotomy between the Black community and themselves while confronting issue long avoided.  Awards (selection):NEXT Innovator Award and NEXT Audience Award – Sundance Film Festival 2023 (USA)Panorama Audience Award – Berlin International Film Festival 2023 (Germany)The Best Film in the International Competition – DocAviv Film Festival 2023 in Tel …

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THE HAMLET SYNDROME

A young Ukrainian theater director takes us on a search for the Hamlets of today. Her theatrical production becomes the starting point for a thrilling portrait of a young Ukrainian generation marked by war and time of huge political change. 

WE WILL NOT FADE AWAY

Alisa Kovalenko, director of the film We Will Not Fade Away, had decided to put away video camera and fight for her country after the outbreak of the war. However, after some time she picked up the video camera again to show others what is going on in her country. She began working on the …

AWAY

Andrii and Alisa, Ukrainian teenagers, have escaped the shelling of their native Kharkiv to Budapest. They hold after-school drawing classes for Ukrainian refugee children, and await news from their families back home. News reports and phone calls with family bring the harsh everyday reality of the war into their lives, while their street art protest …

IRON BUTTERFLIES 

In the summer of 2014, sunflower fields and coal mines in eastern Ukraine turn into a 12 square kilometers crime scene. A multi-layered investigation into the downing of flight MH17, in which a butterfly-shaped shrapnel was found in the pilot’s body implicated the state responsible for a war crime that remains unpunished. 

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20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL

An AP team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting atrocities of the Russian invasion. As the only international reporters who remain in the city, they capture what later become defining images of the war: dying children, mass graves, the bombing of a maternity hospital, and …

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LITTLE RICHARD: I AM EVERYTHING 

Little Richard: I Am Everything tells the story of the Black queer origins of rock ’nʼ roll. It explodes the whitewashed canon of American pop music to reveal the innovator – the originator – Richard Penniman. Through a wealth of archive and performance that brings us into Richardʼs complicated inner world, the film unspools the …

THE ETERNAL MEMORY

Paulina (51) is an actress, and Augusto (68) is a host of cultural television programs. They have been together for twenty-five years and five years ago he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. From that moment, she integrated him into her work and social routine, creating a new model of life where they are always together. They …

THE TUBA THIEVES

A spate of robberies in Southern California schools had an oddly specific target: tubas. In this work of creative nonfiction, d/Deaf first-time feature director Alison O’Daniel presents the impact of these crimes from an unexpected angle. Blending documentary and fictionalized performances and set to an L.A. landscape/soundscape never quite seen before, this film explores a …

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IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE?

My body is extremely unusual, and I’ve never seen another like my own. Is There Anybody Out There? is a personal documentary following my search to track down other individuals with the same rare disability as me. The film also explores the experience of being a disabled pregnant woman as well as the emotional process …

AURORAʼS SUNRISE

At only 14 years old, Aurora lost everything during the horror of the Armenian genocide. Four years later, through luck and extraordinary courage, she escaped to New York, where her story became a media sensation. Starring as herself in Auction of Souls, an early Hollywood blockbuster, Aurora became the face of one of the largest …

ALL YOU SEE

What if from one day to the next, you’re no longer seen, but instead are stared at? The leading characters in All You See have ended up in a new world where suddenly nothing seems to align. In their new lives in the Netherlands, they unintentionally provoke reactions on a daily basis. Even after many …

MY STREET FILMS

The first screening of short documentary films produced as a part of the My Street Films SK 2023 educational project. Over the course of a few months, participants developed original concepts under the guidance of Barbora Sliepková, Adam Hanuljak, Marek Kuboš, and Maroš Šlapeta. We are now presenting these films to the public for the …

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