One World ( Czech: ''Jeden svět'') is the largest human rights film festival in the world (125,947 spectators in 2018), held annually in

Prague Prague ( ; cs, Praha ; german: Prag, ; la, Praga) is the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic, and the historical capital of Bohemia. On the Vltava river, Prague is home to about 1.3 million people. The city has a temperate ...

and other 36 cities of the

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, with a selection later shown in Brussels and other countries. The festival highlights quality documentary films on social, political, environmental, media and human rights issues. One World presents over a 100 documentary films from all around the globe and organizes numerous Q&As with filmmakers and experts.

History

Established in 1999 by

Igor Blaževič Igor Blaževič (born 1963 in Trebinje, Herzegovina region of SFR Yugoslavia) is a European human rights campaigner of Croatian origin living in the Czech Republic as the founder and longtime director of One World, the Europe's biggest human righ ...

and the Czech NGO People in Need, the One World Festival presents over a100 documentary films during nine days in Spring from around the world. It is a founding member of the Human Rights Film Network, which brings together 33 festivals around the world. In 2006, the festival received a Special Mention from

UNESCO The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a List of specialized agencies of the United Nations, specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) aimed at promoting world peace and security through international coope ...

for its contribution to human rights and peace education. Three years later, in 2009, One World published a handbook entitled ''Setting Up a Human Rights Film Festival'', which offers practical advice as well as case studies of prominent human rights events. In 2018, the One World Festival was in its 20th year and took place from 5–14 March, presenting 128 documentaries and 9 virtual reality projects from more than 40 countries around the world. In the same year, the festival and the NGO, People In Need, published the handbook, ''Explore Impact: How To Reach New Audiences And Boost impact'', that should serve as an important guideline for the festival (or other cultural events) organizers who care about the social dimension and impact of their work. One World was held under the auspices of

Václav Havel Václav Havel (; 5 October 193618 December 2011) was a Czech statesman, author, poet, playwright, and former dissident. Havel served as the last president of Czechoslovakia from 1989 until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia in 1992 and then ...

, the Minister of Foreign Affairs

Karel Schwarzenberg Prince Karel of Schwarzenberg (, born 10 December 1937) is a Czech politician, former leader of the TOP 09 party and was its candidate for president of the Czech Republic in the 2013 election. He served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies ( ...

, the Minister of Culture Jiří Besser, and the Mayor of Prague

Bohuslav Svoboda Bohuslav Svoboda (born 8 February 1944) is a Czech politician and physician who served as the mayor of Prague from 30 November 2010 to 23 May 2013. Svoboda is a member of the Civic Democratic Party. Biography Bohuslav Svoboda was born on 8 F ...

. The 2020 edition of the festival was postponed due to rising concerns over COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak.

Competitions and awards

One World's program consists of three competitive categories, a variety of non-competitive thematic categories as well as Docs for Kids section. Films are judged by One World's selection committee that concentrates equally on both human rights content and artistic quality. Six main awards are given to the winning films: *International Competition Award *Award for the Best Director in the International Competition *The Václav Havel Jury Award for a film that makes an exceptional contribution to the defense of human rights *Czech Competition Award *Audience Award *Student Jury Award

Homo Homini Award

During the festival, People in Need grants the annual

Homo Homini Award The Homo Homini Award ( Latin: "A human to another human") is given annually by the Czech human rights organization People in Need to "an individual in recognition of a dedication to the promotion of human rights, democracy and non-violent solution ...

to individuals in recognition of their dedication to promoting human rights, democracy and nonviolent solutions to political conflicts. The 2011 award went to the underground network of Syrian doctors,

Doctors Coordinate of Damascus Doctors Coordinate of Damascus (sometimes called Damascus Doctors) is a network of health care workers that provides clandestine medical aid to injured civilians of the Syrian Civil War. The group treats bystanders cut off from regular medical care ...

, for their work in aiding victims of violence in Syria. ''Winners of the Homo Homini Award'' *1994: Sergei Kovalev *1997:

Szeto Wah Szeto Wah (; 28 February 1931 – 2 January 2011) was a prominent Hong Kong democracy activist and politician. He was the founding chairman of the Hong Kong Alliance in Support of Patriotic Democratic Movements of China, the Hong Kong Profes ...

*1998:

Ibrahim Rugova Ibrahim Rugova (; 2 December 1944 – 21 January 2006) was a prominent Kosovo Albanian political leader, scholar, and writer, who served as the President of the partially recognised Republic of Kosova, serving from 1992 to 2000 and as President ...

*1999: Oswaldo Payá Sardiñas *2000: Min Ko Naing *2001: Zackie Achmat *2002: Thích Huyền Quang, Thích Quảng Độ and

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*2003:

Nataša Kandić Nataša Kandić ( sr-cyr, Наташа Кандић; born December 16, 1946) is a Serbian human rights activist and coordinator of the RECOM Reconciliation Network, founder and ex-executive director of the Humanitarian Law Center (HLC), an orga ...

*2004: Gheorghe Briceag *2005:

Ales Bialatski Ales Viktaravich Bialiatski ( be, Алесь Віктаравіч Бяляцкі, Alieś Viktaravič Bialiacki; born 25 September 1962) is a Belarusian pro-democracy activist and prisoner of conscience known for his work with the Viasna Human ...

and the Belarusian organisation

Viasna The Viasna Human Rights Centre ( be, Праваабарончы цэнтр «Вясна», Pravaabarončy centr «Viasna») is a human rights organization based in Minsk, Belarus. The organization aims to provide financial and legal assistance t ...

*2006: Svetlana Gannushkina *2007:

Su Su Nway Su Su Nway (, ; born 1971; also known as Su Su Nwe) is a Burmese democracy activist and political prisoner. In 2005, she became the first Burmese national to successfully sue local government officials under a 1999 law on forced labour. Force ...

Phyu Phyu Thin Phyu Phyu Thin ( my, ဖြူဖြူသင်း, ; born 23 December 1971) is a Bamar, Burmese politician and HIV/AIDS activist who served as a House of Representatives (Myanmar), House of Representatives MP for Mingala Taungnyunt Township fro ...

, and

Nilar Thein Nilar Thein ( my, နီလာသိန်း, ) (born 4 March 1972) is a Burmese democracy activist and political prisoner imprisoned from 2008 to 2012 at Thayet prison in Burma's Magway Region. Amnesty International considered her a prisoner ...

*2008:

Liu Xiaobo Liu Xiaobo (; 28 December 1955 – 13 July 2017) was a Chinese writer, literary critic, human rights activist, philosopher and Nobel Peace Prize laureate who called for political reforms and was involved in campaigns to end communist one- ...

*2009:

Majid Tavakoli Majid Tavakoli ( fa, مجید توکلی ; born 1986) is an Iranian student leader, human rights activist and political prisoner. He used to be a member of the Islamic Students' Association at Tehran's Amirkabir University of Technology, where ...

and

Abdollah Momeni Abdollah Momeni is an Iranian student leader and activist. He became involved in the movement in the July 1999 protests, when large numbers of students across the country protested the abolition of pro-reform newspaper ''Salam''. Abdollah Momeni w ...

*2010: Azimjan Askarov *2011:

*2012: Intigam Aliyev *2013: Sapiyat Magomedova *2014: Souad Nawfal *2015:

Black Spring (Cuba) Black Spring refers to the 2003 crackdown on Cuban dissidents. The government imprisoned 75 dissidents, including 29 journalists, as well as librarians, human rights activists, and democracy activists, on the basis that they were acting as agent ...

: Martha Beatriz Roque Cabello, Jorge Olivera Castillo, Ángel Juan Moya Acosta, José Daniel Ferrer García, Félix Navarro Rodríguez, Iván Hernández Carrillo, Héctor Maseda Gutiérrez, Óscar Elías Biscet González, Eduardo Díaz Fleitas, Librado Ricardo Linares García, Arnaldo Ramos Lauzurique *2016:

Committee for the Prevention of Torture (Russia) The Crew Against Torture (NGO CAT; russian: Кома́нда прóтив пы́ток, founded as Committee Against Torture, Комитет против пыток, the name was changed in June 2022) is a Russian non-governmental organisation ...

*2017: Pham Doan Trang *2018: Francisca Ramirez *2019:

Buzurgmehr Yorov Buzurgmehr Yorov (russian: link=no, Бузургмехр Ёров, tg, Бузургмеҳр Ёров; 9 July 1971) is a Tajik human rights lawyer and member of the opposition Social Democratic Party of Tajikistan. Throughout the 2000s, serving as ...

*2020: Marfa Rabkova, Andrei Chapiuk, Leanid Sudalenka, and Tatsiana Lasitsa *2021: Mahienour El-Massry

References

External links

One World Film Festival Official Site

At Prague Festival, Movies With a Conscience in: The New York Times

Movies and Prizes 2011
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History

Competitions and awards

Homo Homini Award

See also

References

External links