Right to Know

Right to Know is a unique competition category that includes 16 full-length, original and high-quality documentary films drawing attention to unknown or suppressed issues relating to human rights. The 16 films compete for the Rudolf Vrba Award. The Jury members are not filmmakers, instead, they have deliberately been chosen among charismatic and brave individuals who are committed to upholding human rights.

 

This year, the jury consists of the following members: Shan activist Nang Hseng Noung, a Burmese refugee in Thailand; Cuban ex-dissident Ramon Colas, the founder of Cuba’s Independent Library Movement; Gul Rahman, People in Need project coordinator in Afghanistan; Ina Kuley, the chairwoman of the Committee for the Defence of the Repressed and wife of Belorussian opposition leader Alexander Milinkevich; and Hope Christians from Namibia, director of the People in Need workshop in Namibia, a project employing people afflicted, both directly and indirectly, by HIV and AIDS. 
 

A Cry in the Dark / A Cry in the Dark
Haobam Paban Kumar / India / 2006 / 52 min.

At the beginning of June 2004, film-school student Paban Kumar returned to his home in Manipur for the holidays. This small Indian federal state had been under British rule from the end of the nineteenth ...

    Screening:
     02.03.2007 / 17:00 / Perštýn

     05.03.2007 / 17:30 / Evald

A Killer Bargain / Nar tilbud draber
Tom Heinemann / Denmark / 2006 / 57 min.

Large retailers keep their prices low by importing products from Third World countries. North-west India is a region known for its production of cotton. Local families here are completely dependent on ...

    Screening:
     01.03.2007 / 17:30 / Světozor VS

     02.03.2007 / 20:30 / Městská knihovna MS

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A Lesson of Belorussian / Lekcja białoruskiego
Mirosław Dembiński / Poland / 2006 / 51 min.

In 1990, Belarus declared its sovereignty and a year later it announced its full independence after the collapse of the USSR. At the beginning of this period, an elite national lyceum was established ...

    Screening:
     03.03.2007 / 17:30 / Městská knihovna MS

     06.03.2007 / 17:30 / Světozor VS

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Ghosts of Abu Ghraib / Ghosts of Abu Ghraib
Rory Kennedy / USA / 2006 / 78 min.

Filmmaker Rory Kennedy courageously attempts to survey the situation surrounding the greatest scandal concerning the US Army in recent times. She sets off on a journey mapping the history of Iraq's Abu ...

    Screening:
     04.03.2007 / 21:30 / Lucerna

     08.03.2007 / 17:00 / Perštýn

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How to Plan a Revolution / How to Plan a Revolution
Ivan O'Mahoney / UK / 2006 / 60 min.

Just like Ukraine, Serbia and Georgia, Azerbaijan saw a wave of popular opposition in November 2005. A group of young people took inspiration from their counterparts in those states and prepared mass ...

    Screening:
     03.03.2007 / 20:30 / Městská knihovna MS

     06.03.2007 / 17:00 / Perštýn

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Jesus Camp / Jesus Camp
Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady / USA / 2006 / 84 min.

America's Evangelical community is growing ever stronger. Its main aim is not to lead God to earth but rather to return the whole of the earth to God. Evangelicals believe that it is necessary to triumph ...

    Screening:
     02.03.2007 / 21:30 / Světozor VS

     05.03.2007 / 17:00 / Perštýn

No Past to Speak of / No Past to Speak of
Jeremy Gans / Canada / 2006 / 55 min.

No Past to Speak Of is a documentary that lays bare the shocking fact of child rape in South Africa. In the film, director Jeremy Gans follows the story of a five-months-old girl called Vyanna, who has ...

    Screening:
     04.03.2007 / 13:00 / Světozor VS

     07.03.2007 / 17:30 / Evald

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On a Tightrope / On a Tightrope
Petr Lom / Canada, Norway / 2006 / 71 min.

Eight million Uighurs live in the Chinese province of Xinjiang on the country's north-western border. But what is life like for the largest Muslim minority in a country where any attempt at asserting ...

    Screening:
     01.03.2007 / 19:30 / Evald

     04.03.2007 / 17:30 / Světozor VS

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Out of Balance - ExxonMobil's Impact on Climate Change / Out of Balance - ExxonMobil's Impact on Climate Change
Tom Jackson / USA / 2006 / 65 min.

The second part of this film's title emphasises the focal point of director Tom Jackson's area of interest, namely the impact that the commercial activities of the American oil company ExxonMobil have ...

    Screening:
     02.03.2007 / 17:30 / Lucerna

     05.03.2007 / 17:30 / Městská knihovna MS

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Palestine Blues / Palestine Blues
Nida Sinnokrot / Palestine, USA / 2005 / 77 min.

What is left for Palestinian farmers who learn that in 24hrs the Israeli Army will confiscate their lands for the construction of a Security Wall? What do people do when their very survival is threatened ...

    Screening:
     01.03.2007 / 21:30 / Lucerna

     03.03.2007 / 13:30 / Lucerna

Please Vote for Me / Please Vote for Me
Weijun Chen / China / 2006 / 55 min.

On the first day of term at a Chinese primary school, teachers pick three candidates in the first grade for the post of class monitor. The children themselves have to elect one of them as their monitor. ...

    Screening:
     04.03.2007 / 17:30 / Lucerna

     05.03.2007 / 15:30 / Lucerna

Shame / Shame
Mohammed Naqvi / Pakistan, USA / 2006 / 110 min.

In June 2002, the Pakistani Mukhtaran Mai was raped by a group of men. Her father, uncle and a dozen other men looked on. This was her punishment for an offence her brother had committed. He had had a ...

    Screening:
     01.03.2007 / 21:30 / Evald
     04.03.2007 / 15:00 / Světozor VS

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Tambogrande: Mangos, Murder, Mining / Tambogrande, Mangos, Muerte, Minería
Ernesto Cabellos, Stephanie Boyd / Peru / 2006 / 85 min.

Filmmakers Stephanie Boyd and Ernesto Cabellos focus on the fight waged by Peruvian farmers against the corrupt government and foreign mining companies. These farmers arrived in Tambogrande decades ago ...

    Screening:
     05.03.2007 / 19:30 / Lucerna

     06.03.2007 / 17:30 / Evald

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The Prize of the Pole / The Prize of the Pole
Staffan Julén / Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland / 2006 / 80 min.

At the intersection of many different time and geographical zones stands the young Eskimo Robert Peary II, who has begun tracing the story of his great-grandfather Roberta E. Peary, the conqueror of the ...

    Screening:
     01.03.2007 / 20:00 / Světozor MS
     07.03.2007 / 21:30 / Lucerna

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We Are Together (Thina Simunye) / We Are Together (Thina Simunye)
Paul Taylor / UK / 2006 / 83 min.

South Africa is grappling with many problems. One of the biggest of these is the ever-growing number of people infected with HIV and the ensuing rise in the number of abandoned orphans. "Grandma" Zodwa ...

    Screening:
     01.03.2007 / 21:15 / Perštýn
     05.03.2007 / 17:30 / Lucerna

When Adnan Comes Home / When Adnan Comes Home
Andrew Berends / USA / 2006 / 74 min.

Adnan, a sixteen-year-old Iraqi boy, stole two metres of decommissioned cable. He was arrested and sent to prison with the toughest criminals and murderers. This starts his journey through various jails ...

    Screening:
     04.03.2007 / 17:30 / Městská knihovna MS

     07.03.2007 / 19:30 / Lucerna

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