One World 2004

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One World at Schools: About the project

Over the last two years, One World has organized several hundred documentary film screenings in secondary schools followed by discussions on human rights topics. The favorable reactions of students, teachers, and experts has proven the great potential that documentary films have in educating young people about human rights issues and development assistance.

Armed conflicts, crisis spots, environmental catastrophes, poverty, racism, minorities, equal opportunities, refugees, the sick, the elderly, and the handicapped are all topics we have covered in these screenings. The stories of documentary films focus attention on problems of which students are more often than not only vaguely aware. The realization that someone is an innocent victim of wrong-doing creates interest in the fate of fellow human beings, regardless of whether they live next door or at the other end of the world. Such reflection leads to questioning, searching for answers, and developing personal views and opinions.

Within the framework of this project we have developed a series of educational materials consisting of documentary films, background information, teaching manuals, and methodical instructions for teachers. We provide these materials to all schools that have joined the program, which numbers 255 to date. We also provide training to high school teachers so that they may effectively include human rights issues in the teaching syllabus.

We also publish the magazine „Link“ for students, and regularly launch literary and art competitions. In a number of schools One World film clubs have been created, in which students themselves organize the screening of documentary films, run debate forums, and stage exhibitions.

During festival days in April, already a One World tradition, we invite a large number of schools to attend film screenings at the festival venues in the mornings hours. These screenings are followed by debates with special guests. Schools are offered a choice of which will films they want to see. The recommended films are concerned with typical One World topics such as crisis areas, development aid, accepting otherness, and migration. A new topic we are concentrating on this year is that of reconciling the past. In cooperation with the Nuremberg festival, Perspective, we plan to offer selected films for screening at German schools as well.

The One World in Schools project has received support from the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Education, the Czech-German Future Fund, the US Embassy in Prague, and the Open Society Fund Prague.

Docs for Kids

This year, for the first time, One World is screening documentary films geared towards pupils of primary schools (students from 8-13 years of age). The prepared collection of nine films has been selected in collaboration with the IDFA (the Netherlands). The films are primarily about children and aimed at children. We want to give the youngest viewers the opportunity to witness the lives and experiences of their peers not only in countries with a similar cultural background to theirs, but also those whose lifestyles and backgrounds are completely different. Documentary films are a proven tool in the teaching of tolerance, accepting otherness, and the developing of an active attitude and a desire to help.

Films in this category will be screened within the framework of the school project in the morning hours, as well as in individual bloc sessions during weekends.

The main partners for the school screenings and the One World for Children category are Metrostav and Matra Kap program of the Dutch Embassy.

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