Festival Newspaper
This year Bosnia and Herzegovina commemorates the 10th anniversary of massacre in Srebrenica, the oldiest massacre in Europe from the end of the Second World War and from the war ended by signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement. One World Festival marks this anniversary by screenings of the two films Earth Promised Sky and Justice Unseen, which both reflect difficult process of coping with the recent events.
Director, producer and freelance cameraman, Phil Cox, was the first filmmaker to enter the troubled state of Darfur in Western Sudan at the beginning of 2004. His film Sudan: The Darfur War offers a human insight into an unreported and devastating conflict now widely recognized as the world's greatest humanitarian disaster. Since then, Cox´s production company Native Voice Films has been nominated for several awards for its filming and producing in Darfur and keeping the Darfur tragedy into the media spotlight. One World Slovakia also screens another successful documentary of Phil Cox, We are the Indians, which offers a unique look at the conflict between the traditional Indian culture and the white civilization.
The work of director, producer and founder of the AKKA Films, Nicolas Wadimoff, is represented by the film Peace Agreement: L´Accord, which Wadimoff co-directed with journalist Béatrice Guelpa. The document released in 2005 reveals us the fascinating story behind the Geneva Initiative set up in 2003 by a group of seven very different individuals – three Israelis, three Palestinians and one Swiss – united by their dedication to achieve peace in the Middle East.
