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One World Slovakia 2022 offers the best documentaries – live in cinemas in Bratislava and online among Slovakia territory.

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ONE WORLD IN BRIEF

After last year’s premiere, the programme of the One World film festival will once again include One World in Brief – a section dedicated to the latest exceptional short documentary films. Its unifying theme, as well as the theme of the entire 23rd edition of the festival, is HOME. We usually associate this abstract concept …

PONGO CALLING

Štefan Pongo is a Roma lorry driver. Fifteen years ago he emigrated with his family from the Czech Republic to the United Kingdom to protect them from racial discrimination. The children have graduated from universities and the family is doing well. Mission completed. But the echoes of hate carry over from the old country. When the …

Záložňa

THE PAWNSHOP

Jola and Wiesiek, an extraordinary couple, run the biggest pawn shop in the south of Poland. Profitable in the past, today the business only generates loses. To save it, they decide to organize a grand spring sale.

Rebélia

REBELLION

Rebellion tells the compelling story of a group of people coming together to build a global movement with the ambition of system change – a movement which grew so swiftly, it became the number one influencer on climate awareness within a year of inception. But changing public consciousness is one thing; changing the way the world works …

Návrat: život po ISIS

THE RETURN: LIFE AFTER ISIS

Shamima Begum (UK) and Hoda Muthana (US) made it into worldwide headlines when they left their countries as teenagers to join ISIS. Now they want to return but their countries don’t want them back. Filmed in the high-security Camp Roj in Syria, which houses ISIS women and children that no Western country wants back, and …

Vitajte späť

WELCOME BACK, FAREWELL

Parents and children are reunited after 13 years apart. This is the starting point of Welcome Back, Farewell. The documentary follows the process of rebuilding affection in a Japanese descent family that is affected by the immigration flux between Brazil and Japan known as the dekassegui phenomenon. The debut feature film by Marcos Yoshi, director …

Medzi nebom a horami

MOUNTAINS AND HEAVEN IN BETWEEN

In 2020 the world was suddenly put on pause because of the pandemic. At this time the work of the medical workers comes to the fore, after the decades of being largely invisible. Doctors have to choose whom to save first and who’ll have to wait. Humans have difficulty understanding a threat if it can’t be …

Shabu

SHABU

The Dutch-caribbean Shabu (14) lives an inner-city flat called Peperklip (The Paper cClip) in one of the most notorious neighborhoods in Rotterdam South, the Netherlands. He dreams of being a famous musician. In this feel-good film we enter the neighborhood seen through his eyes, vibrant and exuberant, exciting and fun. A colorful loving environment where everyone knows …

AI at

A.I. AT WAR

In the warzones of Mosul and Raqqa, then in Paris during the Yellow Cest suprising, filmmaker Florent Marcie confronts Sota, an AI robot, with the tragedy of mankind. As the story unfolds, the relationship that develops between man and machine questions our human condition and our future. 

corpo a corpo

YOKO

Veronica Yoko Plebani knows that no battle comes without scars and that success never comes without struggle. A three time Italian Paralympian, activist for female athletes and advocate for diverse standards in beauty, Yoko’s dreams for Tokyo medal in 2020 are suddenly dashed by the world wide pandemic. While sports are suspended, the determined triathlete never …

Ako to chcem ja

AS I WANT

Cairo, January 25, 2013: An explosion of sexual assaults takes place in Tahrir Square on the second anniversary of the revolution. In response, a massive outpouring of enraged women fill the streets. Director Samaher Alqadi picks up her camera as a form of protection and begins documenting the growing women’s rebellion, not knowing where the story …

Terapia

THE THERAPY

Conversion Therapy is revealed from within for the first time. Lev, a 54 year-old divorced Orthodox Jew, attends conversion therapy hoping to be remarried to a woman. He attends one-on-one therapy sessions and group therapy, believing his unwanted same-sex attractions will disappear. At the same time, Ben, a 23-year-old social works tudent, seven years into …

Mjanmarské denníky

MYANMAR DIARIES

A hybrid film about life under the regime of terror in Myanmar in the aftermath of its military coup of February 1st 2021, told through personal stories by a group of anonymous young Myanmar filmmakers. The film shows how Myanmar goes from the military coup to nation-wide protests and civil disobedience, to barbaric repression where …

Ostrov melanchólie

BLUE ISLAND

The film documents three real-life characters who engaged in rebellions when they were young. Through reconstructing these events, the film dramatizes theirs carred memories and experiences by using four young people who participated in the 2019 Anti-extradition Law Amendment Movement in Hong Kong. These real protagonists are separated by time and history, yet their lives …

Vonku

OUTSIDE

The seven-year journey of Roma, once a poster boy for the Ukrainian Revolution, who is released from the orphanage at eighteen into the adult world with nothing but a knife and a lighter.

Pryvoz

PRYVOZ

The film documents the life of one of the oldest and largest European markets. Passion on both sides of the counter, loaders’ dreams, hidden fantasies of fish sellers… Security guards and flea market manager share their thoughts about the universe and the meaning of life. The past, the present, the future, and other gypsy predictions, …

Horský chodník

PLAI. A MOUNTAIN PATH

Hannusia puts the burden of farming in the Carpathian Mountains on herself after Dmytro, her husband of thirty years, losses his leg defending independence of modern Ukraine. Their grandchildren of six and three years old help them too.

Aja

AYA

Aya grows up with her mother on the island of Lahou (Ivory Coast). Joyful and carefree, she likes to pick coconuts and sleep on the sand. However, her paradise is doomed to disappear under the waters. As the waves threaten her house, Aya makes a choice: the sea can rise, but she will not leave …

Odlúčené

APART

3 moms. 4 kids. 18 years in prison.–Since the beginning of theWar on Drugs, the number of women in U.S. prisons has grown over 800%. The majority are mothers. In a Midwestern state caught between harsh drug sentencing and rising incarceration for women, three unforgettable mothers–Tomika, Lydia, and Amanda–return home from prison and rebuild their …

Náročná cesta domov

NO SIMPLE WAY HOME

In East Africa, Rebecca Nyandeng de Mabioris known as the mother of South Sudan. The country gained independence in 2011 and has been at war for most of its short history. Nyandengʼs greatest fear is that her husband, John Garang de Mabior, along with millions of South Sudanese people, died in vain. After years in …

Posledný turista

THE LAST TOURIST

Travel is at a tipping point. Tourists are unintentionally destroying the very things they have come to see. Overtourism has magnified its impact on the environment, wildlife, and vulnerable communities around the globe. Filmed in over 16 countries and guided by the world’s leading tourism and conservation visionaries, The Last Tourist reveals the real conditions …

INSTRUCTIONS FOR SURVIVAL

The film is about love story of one couple Alexandre and Marie. Alexandre is a transgender and lives with his girlfriend Marie. Because of his trans identity and mark “female” in passport, Alexandre has to lead a secret life. Such people like him are threatened with persecution and death in his homeland. In order to …

CHOICES/VOICES

Choices/Voices critically assesses the systemic barriers to abortion access in Germany through a mix of personal accounts, docufictional scenes, and topical interviews. In doing so, the film adresses over arching questions of population control policies and bodily self-determination: Which parents, which children, and which families are deemed desirable and why?  The screening will be followed …

Navstevnici

THE VISITORS

A young anthropologist, Zdenka, moves with her husband and three sons to Svalbard, Norway, to study how life is changing in polar regions. She has received a prestigious two-year grant to carry out extensive research on the impact of globalization on the inhabitants of the world’s northernmost town, Longyearbyen. After falling in love with her …

TRI MINÚTY (PO)ZASTAVENÉ V ČASE

THREE MINUTES: A LENGTHENING

Three minutes of home movie footage, mostly in color, shot by David Kurtz in 1938, are the only known moving images left of the Jewish inhabitants of Nasielsk, Poland, before the Holocaust. Those precious minutes are examined in intricate detail to unravel the human stories hidden in the celluloid. Tracing the story of those three …

Maželstvo

A MARRIAGE

When Zdenka, a single woman in the Czech Republic, started playing online games with strangers, she didnʼt know it would change her life. Neither did Tabish, a computer scientist a world away in Pakistan. Their friendship turned to romance, and after flying to Sri Lanka to meet in real life, the committed couple married. Tabish …

Adam Ondra

ADAM ONDRA: PUSHING THE LIMITS

Adam Ondra is one of the best climbers today, a true virtuoso who has tackled the world’s most difficult rocks and walls. But with the pressure from the media and fans rising, his desire to climb has changed into an obligation to win. A breathtaking, intimate look at the life and career of a man …

Odchádzania

LEAVING TO REMAIN

Leaving to Remain is a film with three protagonists: Ondrej Olah, Denisa Ganon and Peter Toták. They represent a generation of Roma children who emigrated to the United Kingdom in the 1990s and at the beginning of the new millennium. They were given chances in England that they were denied in their native lands – …

Jednotka intenzivného života

INTENSIVE LIFE UNIT

Doctors Ondřej and Kateřina look after their patients to the best of their ability, but they can’t prevent their deaths. Nevertheless, the inevitability of the end isn’t the hardest thing they have to face as heads of palliative care at Prague’s General University Hospital. A pilot project has emerged at a time when countless options …

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+– 90

The film is an attempt at capturing the way documentary filmmakers think. It is a collective portrait of the soul of the Slovak documentary filmmaker.  The screening will be followed by discussion with its director Marek Kuboš.

Odpočítavanie

COUNTDOWN – THE LAST FILM OF IVAN PALÚCH

A film about one of the most important figures in Slovak acting, Ivan Palúch. In 1969, Palúch starred in three feature films screened at the Cannes Film Festival in just a single edition of the highly prestigious annual event. Two of them were in the main feature film competition: Michael Kohlhaas – The Rebel by …

RENÉ – VÄZEŇ SLOBODY

RENÉ – THE PRISONER OF FREEDOM

After almost 50 years, the Fuck of people [sic] neck tattoo is fading. René, the antisocial recidivist with a bright mind, doesn’t want to be behind bars anymore. He wants to live and perhaps even to love. René became publicly known in 2008 thanks to his film portrait by director Helena Třeštíková, the most significant …

Dežo Hoffmann

DEZO HOFFMANN – PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE BEATLES

A documentary about Dežo Hoffmann, originally born in Slovakia, who went on to become a legendary photographer of The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Marilyn Monroe and other stars. The creators of this documentary spoke to Hoffmann’s former collaborators and travelled across the world to map out his adventure-filled life. Hoffmann’s life oscillates between the European theatre …

Fragile Memory

FRAGILE MEMORY

The famous Soviet cinematographer Leonid Burlaka, who worked at the Odessa Film Studios, is suddenly diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. At the same time Ihor, his grandson, a young Ukrainian cinematographer, accidentally stumbles across a heavily damaged photo archive of his grandpa’s dating from the 1960s. Ukrainian cinematographer Ihor meets the young Soviet cinematographer Leonid, who …

Echo

ECHO

Under the tutelage of commander Walter Van Dyck, young recruits of the Belgian Armed Forces receive their basic military training. By means of role-play, an image of their future as Professional soldiers steadily appears.  Echo meticulously documents this intentional metamorphosis, in which subjects are instructed in a new way of looking, listening and thinking.  The screening …

Fly so far

FLY SO FAR

Imagine that you are pregnant. You are in your ninth month. You feel an intense pain. You faint. When you wake up, you are at the hospital, surrounded by police officers. They accuse you of having killed your own baby. This is the story of Teodora Vásquez, the spokes person of the Seventeen accused of …

Deti hmly

CHILDREN OF THE MIST

DI is a 13-year-old girl living in a village lost in the mist of North Vietnamese mountains. She is fortunate in that she is part of the first generation of kids whom have the opportunity to have access to education, but she must convince her parents that studying is not a waste of time and …

Dcéry

DAUGHTERS

Sofia, Hedvig and Maja grew up together on the countryside in Southern Sweden with their mom Carolina – a radiant personality and a devoted mother. In 2010 Carolina took her own life. That day, Hedvig turned ten years old. Maja found Carolina first. Sofia only remembers that every one kept her from looking through the windows. Left behind were …

Nelly a Nadine

NELLY & NADINE

Nelly & Nadine is the unlikely love story between two women falling in love on Christmas Eve, 1944, in the Ravensbrück concentration camp. For many years their relationship was kept a secret. – During World War 2, in the middle of the horrors of the war camps, Nelly and Nadine begin their life-long journey. On Christmas …

This Rain Will Never Stop

THIS RAIN WILL NEVER STOP

This Rain Will Never Stop takes the audience on a powerful, visually arresting journey through humanity’s endless cycle of war and peace. The film follows 20-year-old Andriy Suleyman as he tries to secure a sustainable future while navigating the human toll of armed conflict. From the Syrian civil war to strife in Ukraine, Andriy’s existence is …

LÁSKA, NEMECKÉ MARKY A SMRŤ

LOVE, DEUTSCHMARKS AND DEATH

Love, Deutschmarks and Death tells the story of the independent and largely unknown music of immigrants from Turkey and their children and grandchildren in Germany in a very lively way, full of rhythm. In the form of a documentary essay, director Cem Kaya takes his viewers into a dazzling universe of music diversity. In a cinematic experience of the …

Sami proti všetkým

BIGGER THAN US

For six years, Melati, 18, has been fighting the plastic pollution that is ravaging her country, Indonesia. Like her, a generation is rising up to fix the world. Everywhere, teenagers and young adults are fighting for human rights, the climate, freedom of expression, social justice, access to education or food. Dignity. Alone against all odds, …

krava

COW

Academy Award winner Andrea Arnold, which usually makes feature movies and series, now comes with a documentary, an intimate portrait of one dairy cow’s life. Her film is an endeavour to consider cows. To move us closer to them. To see both their beauty and the challenge of their lives. Not in a romantic way …

Projekt Kartel

THE CARTEL PROJECT

The Forbidden Stories network re-turns with a new global investigation that plunges us into the heart of the Mexican cartels. The investigation begins with the murder of journalist Regina Martínez, strangled to death in her home on April 28, 2012. Her murder marked a turning point for crimes against the press in Mexico. Since then, …

Územie

THE TERRITORY

The Territory provides an immersive on-the-ground look at the tireless fight of the Indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau people against the encroaching deforestation brought by illegal settlers and an association of nonnative farmers in the Brazilian Amazon. With awe-inspiring cinematography showcasing the titular landscape and richly textured sound design, the film takes audiences deep into the Uru-eu-wau-wau community …

Just Animals

JUST ANIMALS

More than ten years ago Saila confessed openly that she was part of the activist group that secretly filmed hundreds of animal farms. Saila’s sister Mai has chosen a different path, politics, and Saila fears her biggest activist idol might become a part of the machinery they have been fighting against together. Saila spent three …

Eternal Spring

ETERNAL SPRING

In March 2002, a state TV station in China was hijacked by members of outlawed spiritual group Falun Gong. Their goal was to counter the government narrative about their practice. In the aftermath, police raids sweep Changchun City, and comic book illustrator Daxiong (Justice League, Star Wars), a Falun Gong practitioner, is forced to flee. He …

Vzostup / Ascension

ASCENSION

Wielding an inquisitive camera and crafting a kaleidoscope of vignettes, Jessica Kingdon’s debut feature film is a visceral exploration of contemporary China’s identity and the paradoxes of economic progress. Deftly observing factory workers create everything from binoculars to sex dolls, the film tracks the collective pursuit of professional success in a communist society. With pathos …

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