The Best of ONE WORLD
| The Best of ONE WORLD |
 | Belarusian Waltz / Belarusian Waltz |
| Andrzej Fidyk / Norway, Poland, USA / 2007 / 74min | |
| Alexander Pushkin is an artist with an unusual speciality: "performances" in which he fights against the Lukashenko dictatorship, which he describes as neo–Stalinist. With humour and wit he allows himself to be arrested for waving a flag on the main street of Minsk, organises an exhibition of portraits of forgotten heroes on the steps of the National Gallery and provocatively [read more] |
 | Between heaven and earth, An Uzbekistan family history |
| Frank van den Engel, Masha Novikova / Netherlands /2007 / 72min | |
| The circus was the only entertainment on a journey of many months along the ancient Silk Road from Europe to China. In Uzbekistan, currently a dictatorship, where the countries population is constantly being watched by a comprehensive system of secret services and informers, the circus is as alive as it was in the days of Genghis Khan.The film tells the [read more] |
 | Citizen Havel / Občan Havel |
| Pavel Kouteckэ, Miroslav Janek / Czech Republic / 2008 / 150min | |
| The film Citizen Havel, subtitled 'Scenes from the Presidential Kitchen', takes us behind the scenes of the political and private dramas of Vбclav Havel's years as president. It captures the former dissident in a great variety of situations: both in political negotiations and in moments when he is not usually before the media, for instance cursing the stitching on a [read more] |
 | Crime and Punishment / Zui yu Fa |
| Zhao Liang / China, France / 2007 / 123min | |
| There is more to today's China than the hypermodern urban complexes and dazzling sports centres which we find in the media. The film Crime and Punishment offers an unexpectedly authentic everyday portrait of the microcosm that is a police station in the border regions, where the impact of China's economic boom has not been felt. Reinforced units fight crime, though [read more] |
 | Damas de Blanco / Damas de Blanco |
| c/ Czech Republic / 2008 / 58min | |
| Damas de Blanco (Ladies in White) is an organisation of mothers, widows and sisters who together fight for the release of 75 political prisoners given extremely stiff sentences by the Cuban regime in spring 2003. The women meet every Sunday and hold silent protest marches as an expression of their demand for the immediate freeing of these men, their husbands, [read more] |
 | Durakovo: Village of Fools / Durakovo, le village des fous |
| Nino Kirtadzй / France / 2007 / 91min | |
| The village of Durakovo is situated not far from Moscow. Mikhail F. Morozov rules here with an iron fist at the local chateau and educates his flock of followers – young men who have lost their way and children of senior state officials – on the virtues of discipline, love of God and, above all, love of one's country. Morozov [read more] |
 | Everything's Cool / Everything's Cool |
| Dan Gold, Judith Helfand / USA / 2007 / 100min | |
| Global warming is one of the gravest dangers confronting us today. The 20–year, quixotic efforts of activists in the USA to warn the public about the risks of climate change are captured in the "documentary cartoon" Everything's Cool. It features among others journalists such as Ross Gelbspan and Bill McKibben, The Weather Channel's Dr Heidi Cullen and government official Rick [read more] |
 | Lost Holiday / Ztracenб dovolenб |
| Lucie Kralova / Czech Republic / 2007 / 84min | |
| In the feature–length, documentary–detective–story Lost Holiday, director Lucie Krбlovб and her investigative team set out on the trail of photographs from 22 rolls of undeveloped film, which were found in a suitcase thrown into a skip in the Swedish city of Gothenburg. The pictures show six Asians posing for the camera in various parts of the country – above fjords [read more] |
 | On the Edge. Six Episodes on AIDS in Ukraine / Am Rande. Sechs Kapitel uber AIDS in der Ukraine |
| Karsten Hein / Germany / 2006 / 105min | |
| Ukraine has one of the highest rates of AIDS in Europe. According to the official statistics, 26,000 people in the country are HIV positive. In reality 200,000 to 300,000 Ukrainians are infected and experts from non–governmental organisations describe the situation as a rising epidemic. This alarming situation has probably also been facilitated by the changes of the past two decades, [read more] |
 | The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo / The Greatest Silence: Rape in the Congo |
| Lisa F. Jackson / USA / 2007 / 77min | |
| The civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo is one of the most protracted and forgotten conflicts in the world. Despite the fact that UN peacekeepers are monitoring the observance of a peace deal after years of war, fighting still continues, particularly in the east of the country. The victims of this drawn–out conflict are hundreds of thousands of [read more] |