Dokumentärfilmsfestival ONE WORLD 2007

ONE WORLD äger rum för nionde året i Prag, mellan den 28 februari och 8 mars och fortsätter sedan i tjeckiska regioner till 31 mars. Festivalen fokuserar på dokumentärer som har mänskliga rättigheter som tema. De svenska filmer som är inbjudna i olika sektioner är:

Ljudmila & Anatolij
Main competititon
Gunnar Bergdahl / 2006 / 86’ / Sweden
A film about love, sorrow and surviving in the shadow of the disaster of Chernobyl. A mother and her son – and the everlasting struggle between memories and hopes, between the past and the present.

A Killer Bargain
Right to know competition
Tom Heinemann / 2006 / 57’ / Denmark, India, Sweden
Globalization may be the stepping stone for many developing countries, but do not fall into the water. You might die from it. Farmers are spraying their cotton fields with four to five times more than the recommended amount of pesticides - completely unprotected and not even able to read the warning-sign on the containers from the multinational companies. Disguised like potential buyers from a fictive chain of shops, the film crew reveals some of the harsh conditions at factories in India and documents how the production in fact is being done.

The Prize of the Pole
Right to know competition
Staffan Julén / 2006 / 80’ / Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland
An investigative documentary about one of the most obsessive men in history, American explorer Robert E. Peary who spent 23 years living in the Arctic in his quest to be the first man at the North Pole. During these years, he moved between New York high society and North Greenland, where he was secretly married to an Eskimo woman. Pressurised by his sponsors to supply them with treasures from the far north, Peary brought six living Eskimos to The American Museum of Natural History in New York, among them a six year old boy, Minik. Except for Minik, all of the other Eskimos died, including Minik’s father. Today, Peary’s great grandson ventures back to Greenland to confront the past and find out what happened to Minik.

The Substitute (Vikarie)
Reflecting images
Åsa Blanck, Johan Palmgren / 2006 / 85’ / Sweden
For Max, a young, ambitious teacher, the chaos at Hallonberg School eventually becomes more than he can cope with. He asks his own old teacher, the legendary Folke, to come to the rescue. Folke is an old-style teacher - and also the world record-holder in talking backwards.

Thin Ice
Music, play and human rights
Hakan Berthas / 2006 / 57’ / Sweden
Dolkar, a young Buddhist woman from Ladakh in the Himalayas wants to play ice hockey. She and her friends tries too make ice to skate on, get equipment and coaching. But the biggest problem is that the men in charge don’t think women ice hockey is important.  Dolkar contacts the Muslim girls for support.

Belfast Girls
Nex generation EU
Malin Andersson / 2006 / 60’ / Sweden
A story of two young women growing up on different sides of the Belfast peace walls, and suddenly are forced to question their heredity and conception of the world.