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Competition: Main Competition

   
 
Main Competition
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The main competition includes 15 full-length documentaries made in the last two years which represent the best films entered in One World 2004. As usual, the main competition section will offer gripping stories, powerful testimonies, charismatic personalities, outstanding filmmaking and intriguing reflections on the challenges of our time. Films in this category compete for the Minister of Culture of the Czech Republic Award for the best film and the Best Director Award. Members of the international grand jury are acclaimed filmmakers: Nick Broomfield (Great Britain), Robert Drew (USA), Patricio Guzman (Chile) Marcel Lozinski (Poland), and Helena Trestikova (Czech Republic).
 
 

Arna`s Children / De kinderen van Arna
Juliano Mer Khamis, Danniel Danniel / Israel, Netherlands, Palestine / 2003 / 84 min.
What makes Palestinian boys, who had participated in a theater program led by an Israeli woman, become suicide bombers and fighters against the Israeli army?
screening:
20.4. 20:00   Archa Theatre - small screening room
21.4. 19:30   Archa Theatre
22.4. 19:30   City Library
 

Frescoes / Freski
Alexander Gutman / Germany, Russia / 2002 / 96 min.
A lyrical documentary about life in the Armenian town of Giumri, which suffered a devastating earthquake in 1988.
screening:
17.4. 17:30   Archa Theatre
20.4. 22:00   Perštýn
 

Wheel of Time / Wheel of Time
Werner Herzog / Germany / 2003 / 80 min.
The celebrated Buddhist ritual of Kalachakra in a new documentary by Werner Herzog.
screening:
14.4. 19:00   Institut francaise
18.4. 19:30   Archa Theatre
 

Surplus / Surplus
Erik Gandini / Sweden / 2003 / 52 min.
A visually colorful, compilation-style documentary that offers a critical view of consumer society.
screening:
16.4. 22:00   City Library
20.4. 19:30   Archa Theatre
 

My Flesh and Blood / My Flesh and Blood
Jonathan Karsh / USA / 2003 / 84 min.
A moving film on how to raise 11 adopted children with serious handicaps and not lose a sense of humor.
screening:
15.4. 21:00   Bijásek Kotva
17.4. 19:30   Archa Theatre
20.4. 19:30   City Library
22.4. 19:30   Institut francaise
 

Junction, The / Sanstri
Ilan Ziv / France, Israel, USA / 2003 / 52 min.
The examination of the events surrounding the deaths of three young people caught up in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
screening:
17.4. 22:00   Institut francaise
19.4. 17:30   Archa Theatre
21.4. 15:00   Bijásek Kotva
 

Normal Life, A / Normal Life, A
Elisabeth Chai Vasarhelyi / USA, UK / 2003 / 65 min.
A film capturing the postwar dilemma of a group of young friends trying to decide whether to stay or leave their home in Kosovo.
screening:
16.4. 19:30   Archa Theatre
20.4. 22:00   City Library
21.4. 20:00   Archa Theatre - small screening room
 

Inheritance: A Fisherman`s Story, The / Inheritance: A Fisherman`s Story, The
Peter Hegedus / Australia, Hungary / 2003 / 75 min.
The battle of a charismatic Hungarian fisherman to renew life on the Tisza river, which was contaminated by tons of cyanide that seeped out of a Romanian mine owned by an Australian company.
screening:
19.4. 21:30   Archa Theatre
20.4. 22:00   Archa Theatre - small screening room
21.4. 19:30   City Library
 

Rwanda, A Cry of Deafening Silence / Rwanda, un cri d`un silence, inouï
Anne Lainé / France / 2003 / 52 min.
Ten years after the genocide, Rwandan society is still haunted by a devastating trauma.
screening:
16.4. 17:30   Archa Theatre
20.4. 17:30   Institut francaise
21.4. 22:00   Archa Theatre - small screening room
 

Tarifa Traffic / Tarifa Traffic
Joakim Demmer / Germany, Switzerland / 2003 / 60 min.
A surfer’s paradise on the beaches of Spain becomes a place where many African refugees die while traveling on overcrowded boats in search of a home in dreamed-of Europe.
screening:
17.4. 15:30   Archa Theatre
20.4. 21:30   Evald
22.4. 16:00   Archa Theatre - small screening room
 

Death in Lübeck / Tot in Lübeck
Lottie Marsau, Katharina Geinitz / Germany / 2003 / 107 min.
A black-and-white reconstruction of the still-unresolved case of ten asylum seekers who were burned alive in Lübeck, Germany.
screening:
15.4. 19:00   Evald
18.4. 17:30   City Library
21.4. 19:30   Institut francaise
 

Born to Be Blind / A pessoa é para o que nasce
Roberto Berliner / Brazil / 2003 / 84 min.
Three blind sisters who are the subject of a documentary by Roberto Berliner are able to leave their Brazilian slum for a while and manage to get all the way to the stage of a prestigious music festival.
screening:
15.4. 19:30   Archa Theatre
18.4. 19:00   Evald
21.4. 17:30   City Library
 

S-21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine / S-21: La machine de mort khmere rouge
Rithy Panh / France / 2002 / 101 min.
The confrontation of survivors and torturers from one of the most feared Khmer Rouge concentration camps in Cambodia.
screening:
18.4. 15:00   City Library - small screening room
20.4. 18:00   Archa Theatre - small screening room
20.4. 21:30   Archa Theatre
22.4. 19:00   Evald
 

Passion of María Elena, The / La Pasión de María Elena
Mercedes Moncada Rodriguez / Mexico / 2003 / 76 min.
Opposing poles of contemporary Mexico serve as the backdrop for the tragic fate of a young Indian woman.
screening:
15.4. 20:00   Archa Theatre - small screening room
17.4. 21:30   Evald
19.4. 19:30   Archa Theatre
 

Garden / Gan
Ruthie Shatz, Adi Barash / Israel / 2003 / 85 min.
Seventeen year-old Palestinian Nino and 18- year old Dudu live off prostitution and selling drugs in an infamous part of Tel Aviv known as the Garden.
screening:
15.4. 21:30   Archa Theatre
17.4. 20:00   Archa Theatre - small screening room
17.4. 22:00   Perštýn
20.4. 17:30   City Library