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In the Hotspots

We learn a lot from the media about events in Iraq, North Korea, Cuba or The Near East every day. But due to the character of this media coverage, these pieces of information are presented mostly superficially and without any wider context. The events in Burma, Nagorno Karabakh, or Indian Manipur, on the other hand, receive almost no attention from the media. In spite of that, these countries are worth global attention because human rights have been seriously violated there.

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

 + Debate: Jaroslav Holman - indolog, Orientální ústav

     05.03.2007 / 17:30 / Evald
 + Debate: Vlastimil Blecha - indolog, Orientální ústav

 

A Story of People in War and Peace / A Story of People in War and Peace
Vardan Hovhannisyan / Armenia / 2006 / 70 min.

As a journalist, Vardan Hovhannisyan was supposed to report on fighting at the front in the Nagorno-Karabakh War over the course of five days, but instead he ended up staying voluntarily for four years. ...

    Screening:
     02.03.2007 / 21:15 / Perštýn

 + Debate: Dana Mazalová - redaktorka České televize, 1990-1996 zpravodajka v bývalém SSSR a SNS; Tigran Abramjan - akademický malíř, člen Armenia Clubu

     04.03.2007 / 15:30 / Městská knihovna MS
 + Debate: Jaromír Štětina, senátor; Darab Gajar, rádio Svobodná Evropa; Dana Mazalová, redaktorka České televize, 1990-1996 zpravodajka v bývalém SSSR a SNS

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Burma's Secret War / Burma's Secret War
Sarah Macdonald / UK / 2006 / 49 min.

Using wartime news dispatches as a model, the experienced documentary-maker Evan Williams goes on a trip to the border areas of Burma. He intends to compile the most comprehensive report possible on a ...

    Screening:
     03.03.2007 / 17:30 / Evald

 + Debate: Hseng Noung - porota Rudolfa Vrby

     06.03.2007 / 21:15 / Perštýn
 + Debate: Hseng Noung, porota Rudolfa Vrby

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Free Cuba: Your Greatest Desire / Cuba Libre: El Mayor Deseo
Mateo Juez / USA / 2006 / 55 min.

Cuba Libre (meaning "Free Cuba") is the name of a popular Cuban drink. It was also the slogan of the revolution that swept Fidel Castro to power in 1959. The revolution became a symbol of a better future ...

    Screening:
     03.03.2007 / 15:30 / Městská knihovna MS

 + Debate: Ramón Colás - porota Rudolfa Vrby

     07.03.2007 / 21:30 / Evald
 + Debate: Ramón Colás, porota Rudolfa Vrby

 

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

 + Debate: Filip Moravec, Asociace pro mezinárodní otázky

     03.03.2007 / 13:30 / Lucerna
 + Debate: Filip Moravec - Asociace pro mezinárodní otázky

 

Return to the Border / Au bord du fleuve, sur la frontiere sino-coréenne
Zhao Liang / China, France / 2005 / 56 min.

Director Zhao Liang was born in southern China on the border with North Korea. Until the 1990s, these two socialist states were allies and both dictatorships actively cooperated with each other across ...

    Screening:
     03.03.2007 / 21:30 / Evald

 + Debate: Lucie Pejšarová, koreanistka a místopředsedkyně Česko-korejské společnosti

     05.03.2007 / 16:00 / Světozor MS
 + Debate: Petr Bláha, koreanista

 

The Damned / Prokletí
Petr Orozovič / Czech Republic / 2006 / 75 min.

The African continent has always connected evil and witchcraft. It has become a custom to label unwanted children as possessed by the devil; exorcisms are performed on such children and in the case of ...

    Screening:
     03.03.2007 / 19:00 / Perštýn

 + Debate: Petr Orozovič - režisér/director

     04.03.2007 / 14:00 / Světozor MS

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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

 + Debate: Jiří Schneider - Prague Security Studies Institute; Jan Urban - dokumentarista; Ester Laueforvá - členka expertního týmu MZV v Iráku

     07.03.2007 / 19:30 / Lucerna
 + Debate: Ester Lauferová - členka expertního týmu MZV v Iráku

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