One World Slovakia 2023 – The 24th international documentary film festival

Movies that touch your heart and people you want to meet. 24th edition of the international documentary film festival One World will take a place on November 3-9, 2023 in Bratislava cinemas and online in Slovakia territory. The theme of this year is LOVE.

FILM CATALOG

ALL FILMS

WILL YOU LOOK AT ME

As he returns to his hometown, a young Chinese filmmaker searches for himself by talking to his mother, and finally having a long due conversation that will dive them together into a quest for acceptance and love.

TO KILL A TIGER

In a small Indian village, Ranjit wakes up to find that his 13-year-old daughter has not returned from a family wedding. A few hours later, she’s found stumbling home. After being dragged into the woods, she was raped by three men. Ranjit goes to the police, and the men are arrested. But Ranjit’s relief is …

THE MOTHER OF ALL LIES

Young Moroccan filmmaker Asmae el Moudir wants to know why she only has one photograph from her childhood, and why the girl in the picture isn’t even her. She decides to explore the past and its mysteries by creating a handmade replica of the Casablanca neighborhood where she grew up. There, she begins to interrogate …

THE HAMLET SYNDROME

A young Ukrainian theater director takes us on a search for the Hamlets of today. Her theatrical production becomes the starting point for a thrilling portrait of a young Ukrainian generation marked by war and time of huge political change.

THE ETERNAL MEMORY

Paulina (51) is an actress, and Augusto (68) is a host of cultural television programs. They have been together for twenty-five years and five years ago he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. From that moment, she integrated him into her work and social routine, creating a new model of life where they are always together. They …

SEVEN WINTERS IN TEHRAN

Tehran, July 2007: Reyhaneh Jabbari, 19, has a business meeting with a new client. When he tries to rape her, she stabs him in self-defense. Later that day, she is arrested for murder. Her trial results in a death penalty sentence. Thanks to personal and secretly recorded videos provided by Reyhaneh’s family, their testimonies and …

PURE UNKNOWN

Every night nameless bodies land in Dr. Cristina Cattaneo’s autopsy room. She calls them Pure Unknown. The Pure Unknown belong to the fringes of society. They are homeless, prostitutes, runaway teenagers. Lately, they have mostly been migrants, rejected by the Mediterranean Sea onto the shores of Italy. If all rights belong to the living, nothing is left to the …

MY IMAGINARY COUNTRY

One day, without warning, a revolution exploded. It was the event that master documentarian Patricio Guzmán had been waiting for all his life: a million and a half people in the streets of Santiago, Chile, demanding justice, education, health care, and a new constitution to replace the strident rules imposed on the country during the …

MATTER OUT OF PLACE

Waste on the shores, waste on the mountains. On ocean floors and deep down in the earth. Matter Out of Place is a film about rubbish, which has spread across the world, to the most remote corners of the planet. Nikolaus Geyrhalter follows the traces of our rubbish across the planet and sheds light on …

MADELEINE

In this blend of reality and fiction, live action and felted animation two friends born 67 years apart share their life stories every week in a senior homeʼs living room. The younger friend convinces the 107-year-old lady to join her in an adventure: a road trip to the sea.

LOVING MARTHA

Daniela López aims her camera at members of her own family – at her grandmother Martha, who escaped a violent marriage after 39 years, and at the rest of the family, who is struggling not only with that trauma but also with the film project itself. We invite people with hearing impairments to this screening. …

LOVE IS NOT AN ORANGE

In the early 90’s, women left Moldova in large numbers to provide for their families. Unable to return home, they found a peculiar way to stay in touch: sending large cardboard boxes filled with gifts and food you could only dream about in those days. In return, their children would send videotapes. This exchange became …

LITTLE RICHARD: I AM EVERYTHING

Little Richard: I Am Everything tells the story of the Black queer origins of rock ’nʼ roll. It explodes the whitewashed canon of American pop music to reveal the innovator – the originator – Richard Penniman. Through a wealth of archive and performance that brings us into Richardʼs complicated inner world, the film unspools the …

KOKOMO CITY

Four Black transgender sex workers explore the dichotomy between the Black community and themselves while confronting issue long avoided. Awards (selection):NEXT Innovator Award and NEXT Audience Award – Sundance Film Festival 2023 (USA)Panorama Audience Award – Berlin International Film Festival 2023 (Germany)The Best Film in the International Competition – DocAviv Film Festival 2023 in Tel …

IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE?

My body is extremely unusual, and I’ve never seen another like my own. Is There Anybody Out There? is a personal documentary following my search to track down other individuals with the same rare disability as me. The film also explores the experience of being a disabled pregnant woman as well as the emotional process …

GIRL GANG

A contemporary fairy tale about a 14-year-old influencer from Berlin and her biggest fan. But life as a social media star has a shadow side that the adrenaline, fame and free sneakers can’t make up for.

FOUR DAUGHTERS

The life of Olfa, a Tunisian woman and mother of four daughters, oscillates between light and shadow. One day, her two eldest daughters disappear. To fill their absence, director Kaouther Ben Hania calls upon professional actors and sets up an extraordinary film mechanism to unveil the story of Olfa and her daughters. An intimate journey …

BETWEEN THE RAINS

Along the banks of a remote river in northern Kenya lives a Turkana community bearing the brunt of an increasingly unpredictable and harsh climate. The Turkana people are the oldest known historical ethnicity still alive today, and are deeply pastoral. As Kenya grows increasingly barren with access to grazing land and water rapidly shrinking, inevitable conflict and …

BETWEEN REVOLUTIONS

In the 1970s, an Iranian student named Zahra meets a fellow student called Maria at university in Bucharest. They are both pursuing a degree in medicine and develop a deep friendship and admiration for each other. When the revolution against the Shah breaks out in 1979, Zahra goes back to Iran, moved by the hope …

AURORAʼS SUNRISE

At only 14 years old, Aurora lost everything during the horror of the Armenian genocide. Four years later, through luck and extraordinary courage, she escaped to New York, where her story became a media sensation. Starring as herself in Auction of Souls, an early Hollywood blockbuster, Aurora became the face of one of the largest …

AWAY

Andrii and Alisa, Ukrainian teenagers, have escaped the shelling of their native Kharkiv to Budapest. They hold after-school drawing classes for Ukrainian refugee children, and await news from their families back home. News reports and phone calls with family bring the harsh everyday reality of the war into their lives, while their street art protest …

ARMAT

In this animated documentary, Élodie tries to find out more about her familyʼs Armenian origins. She interviews her father, her uncle, her great aunt, and discovers a harsh history where violence and the inability to express love are passed down from generation to generation.

APOLONIA, APOLONIA

Lea Glob has followed the Danish-French artist Apolonia Sokol over 13 years. The result is an extraordinarily up-close and personal film that is both a portrait of the life of a unique artist and of the budding friendship and intimacy between two women over a (very) long and formative period in their lives. The charismatic …

ALL YOU SEE

What if from one day to the next, you’re no longer seen, but instead are stared at? The leading characters in All You See have ended up in a new world where suddenly nothing seems to align. In their new lives in the Netherlands, they unintentionally provoke reactions on a daily basis. Even after many …

A TASTE OF WHALE

The fjord’s water, surrounded by stunning green mountains, is turning blood red. It is the “grind” season again – Faroe Islanders’ ritual slaughter of pilot whales. Two proud Faroese whalers are on one side, two young and passionate Sea Shepherd activists on the other. A Taste of Whale invites you to see past preconceived positions …

A STORY OF BONES

As the Chief Environmental Officer for Saint Helena’s troubled £285m ($360m) airport project, Annina van Neel learned of the island’s most terrible atrocity – an unmarked mass burial ground of an estimated 9,000 formerly enslaved Africans in Rupert’s Valley. It is one of the most significant traces of the transatlantic slave trade still on earth. …

A STILL SMALL VOICE

As an aspiring chaplain completes a year-long residency in the spiritual care department of a major New York hospital, she discovers that working with patients requires looking deep within herself. Exploring her own past, her Jewish faith, and her boundaries, she learns what it means – and what it takes – to provide spiritual and emotional care …

A LIFE LIKE ANY OTHER

My father immortalized, in family films, the most beautiful moments of his life, while my mother’s difficulties hit the blind spot in his images. Today, I revisit these films to tell another story: the one about a woman who sees her role as a mother gradually taking away her freedom. (Faustine Cros) The screening is …

20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL

An AP team of Ukrainian journalists trapped in the besieged city of Mariupol struggle to continue their work documenting atrocities of the Russian invasion. As the only international reporters who remain in the city, they capture what later become defining images of the war: dying children, mass graves, the bombing of a maternity hospital, and …

I AM TRYING TO REMEMBER

I asked: “Why have they erased you?” He said: “Maybe they are scared.” I said: “Whoever is scared, should erase themselves.” He said: “In that case, the faces of the living would all be gone and only the dead would remain.” – “I was born into a decade filled with darkness, full of fear. I …

IRON BUTTERFLIES

In the summer of 2014, sunflower fields and coal mines in eastern Ukraine turn into a 12 square kilometers crime scene. A multi-layered investigation into the downing of flight MH17, in which a butterfly-shaped shrapnel was found in the pilot’s body implicated the state responsible for a war crime that remains unpunished.

THE ECHO

In the remote village of El Eco that exists outside of time, the children care for the sheep and their elders. While the frost and drought punish the land, they learn to understand death, illness and love with each act, word and silence of their parents. A story about the echo of what clings to …

THE TUBA THIEVES

A spate of robberies in Southern California schools had an oddly specific target: tubas. In this work of creative nonfiction, d/Deaf first-time feature director Alison O’Daniel presents the impact of these crimes from an unexpected angle. Blending documentary and fictionalized performances and set to an L.A. landscape/soundscape never quite seen before, this film explores a …

THEATRE OF VIOLENCE

Theatre of Violence is a true crime documentary film about Ugandan Defence Lawyer, Kristpus Ayana, who decides to defend the former child soldier, Dominique Ongwen, at one of the world’s biggest legal institutions, The International Criminal Court in The Hague. Charged with crimes against humanity the verdict will set precedent, but the case is also …

TWICE COLONIZED

Renowned Inuit lawyer Aaju Peter has led a lifelong fight for the rights of Indigenous people. When her son suddenly dies, Aaju embarks on a journey to reclaim her language and culture after a lifetime of whitewashing and forced assimilation. But is it possible to change the world and mend your own wounds at the …

WE DONʼT DANCE FOR NOTHING

Captured during a political revolution and pandemic in Hong Kong, this hybrid film combines real events, remembered personal narratives, and staged dances to showcase a vibrant yet oft-forgotten community of Filipina women (200,000 in HK, millions globally), and offer an unseen point of view on events that dominated global headlines. Described as Chris Marker’s La …

WE WILL NOT FADE AWAY

Alisa Kovalenko, director of the film We Will Not Fade Away, had decided to put away video camera and fight for her country after the outbreak of the war. However, after some time she picked up the video camera again to show others what is going on in her country. She began working on the …

ACCOMPANYING PROGRAM

Absynt: Make Královec Czech Again!

A year ago, a series of calls for the Czech Republic to annexe Kaliningrad flashed around the Czech and Slovak social networks along with related images. There were discussions about the weather in the Královec (Kaliningrad) region, people were planning their holidays by the newly acquired Czech sea. The satire culminated in a happening in front of the …

Award ceremony and the concert of Vlado Nosal & The Avedons

Love is going to be given out in a big way tonight, including in the form of awards for the best films and filmmakers of the 24th annual One World film festival. The international jury will present the main prize for the best film in the Slovakia and the Czech Republic for Human Rights section. …

Denník N discussion: We Will Not Fade Away

Guests: Alisa Kovalenko (director of the film We Will Not Fade Away) and Pavol Pekarčík (co-director of the film Photophobia), hosted by Oliver Rehák (editor of Denník N). Alisa Kovalenko, director of the film We Will Not Fade Away, had decided to put away video camera and fight for her country after the outbreak of …

Meaningful partnerships for film

Change will not happen without partners! Who are the right partners to implement change? How to find them? What types of cooperation with public and third sector partners are meaningful for film makers? How to cooperate with partners? Lecturers from the field of film and public policy Eva Pavlovičová and Alexandra Poláková Suchalová will guide …

Social change and film

What is social change? How can it be achieved? What are the available tools to promote it via film? Film and public policy lecturers Eva Pavlovičová and Alexandra Poláková Suchalová will deliver a theoretical and practical lecture that will guide you through the topic of change. Lecture within the industry program will take a place on 6. …

The social impact of film and the film distribution

What is the relationship between social impact and film distribution, and what tools are required to build that relationship? Based on more than 13 years of experience in this field and her work at the Hungarian Palantír Film Foundation, Orsolya Komlósi will guide us through the subject. She will point out the benefits of the …