One World Festival in Brussels
05.04.2016 / 15:18
For the tenth time, One World, International Documentary Film Festival on Human Rights, will take place in Brussels from April 18th till April 27th, where the 14 movies chosen from Prague One World festival will be screened for the Brussels’ audience. The Permanent Representation of the Czech Republic to the EU, the Czech Centre in Brussels, and the People in Need Foundation in collaboration with the Italian Cultural Institute, the BOZAR Centre for Fine Arts and the Norwegian Embassy in Belgium invite you to this unique film festival connected with human rights.
One World Brussels will address the representatives of European institutions, movie fans and regular audience in order to initiate a discussion on important social issues topics with human rights activists and NGOs. The Festival One World is a part of the EU iniciative #EU4HumanRights.
The opening ceremony will take place in the Bozar Centre for Fine Arts on April 18th at 8pm with the first movie “No Man is an Island”. The movie of the Belgian director Tim De Keersmaecker documents the story of Adam and Omar, two young boys thrust by fate on the shores of the Italian island of Lampedusa. A lifebelt was thrown to them by two Italian families, who have been caring for them for several years. Omar from Tunisia works at a centre for refugees and Adam from Ghana cleans a family hotel. Every day each tries to put distance between them and the lives they left behind, to which they never intend to return. But finding a place in a new environment, which for many migrants is only a stop on the way to the continent, is harder than they imagined. They know that their journey will not end on this island. They must find the courage in themselves to start all over again elsewhere. The film, rich in visual metaphors is a moving and personal parable about people building a new home.
Festival screenings will be held in the European Parliament, the Permanent Representation of the Czech Republic to the EU, the Norwegian Embassy in Belgium, the Bozar Centre for Fine Arts and the Italian Cultural Institute. Screenings will be followed by panel discussions with the participation of politicians, human rights activists and international NGOs.
The winning film of the festival One World in Brussels will be chosen by the five-member jury from 7 competition films. This year the jury consists of: Andrew Rettmann from EU Observer, Catherine Absalom from the Worldwide Human Rights Movement (FIDH), Emma Achilli from the Front Line Defenders, Markéta Balková, Human Rights officer from the European External Action Service (EEAS) and Karolína Babická from Caritas Europe.