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ONE WORLD 2004 turned Bratislava into a scene of worldwide docs on human rights

Ethiopia: A Journey with Michael Buerk, one film of the foremost South African filmmaker Clifford Bestall and the popular BBC journalist Michael Buerk, received the spectators' applauses for Best Documentary. People in Peril Association granted the second award for humanitarian act abroad to the children’s movement ERKO raising funds for schools and medical centres in Africa . Over 11.000 visitors chose the festival, 2.000 kids watched docs and 1.500 youths participated into public discussions on human rights issues.

One World Bratislava is a festival for those who would like to know that they have the right to know about people endangered by wars, ethnical and social conflicts, state repressions, discrimination, and intolerance and about endangered or natural lives of different communities all around the world.

The higher festival’s turnout is an indicator of raised public interests and awareness of development issues and human rights. All four festival’s venues became hubs of the culture and intellectual life in the Slovak capital of Bratislava for five days, October 20-24.

Ethiopia : A Journey with Michael Buerk, one documentary of Clifford Bestall and Michael Buerk got the spectators’ award. Wendy Roebuck, the second secretary of the British embassy in Slovakia, received it on behalf of the film makers.

This year visitors had a possibility to see over 64 films uncovering ordinary life and turbulent moments in more than 30 countries, such as Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Burma, Cuba, China, Russia, Israel, Palestine, Alger, Zimbabwe, Rwanda, Cambodia, Mexico, Bosnia, Kosovo, Venezuela, Columbia, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Mongolia, Iran and India.

Docs’ categories: Learning is to Understanding, Clashes and Dialogues of Cultures, Immigrants´ Odyssey, Accepting the Difference, Rich North, Poor South, Democracy in Danger and Visegrad Highlights.

Except moving documentaries, visitors participated into 10 public forums. Guests of the discussions were Richard Dowden , the director of the Royal African Society in Great Britain, Marijana Toma, Humanitarian Law Centre, Serbia, Karin Jurschick, German film maker, Tanya Lokshina, programs director, Moscow Helsinki Group, Joachim Frank , International Helsinki Federation for Human Rights, Maciej Stasinski, editor, foreign desk, Polish daily newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, Nora Benakova and Eliska Slavikova , People in Peril Association.

At the celebrity festival's opening, Mr. László Nagy, the chairman of the Committee for Human Rights, Minorities and the Position of Women of the NC of SR granted the second Slovak award for humanitarian act abroad "PRO HUMANA" to ERKO, a children’s movement collecting millions of Slovak crowns annually in support of children living in Africa .

Three exhibitions were presented: Wives and Mothers of Cuban Dissidents; Women of Iraq, Chechnya and Afghanistan, a collection of 21 photos by Iva Zimova and children’s drawings in support of the building one Afghan school.

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