The 18 the edition of the One World Romania International Documentary Film and Human Rights Festival will take place between April 4 and 13, at the Muzeul Taranului Cinema Hall, Elvire Popesco Cinema Hall and Union Cinema Hall in Bucharest.
Over 50 special guests will interact with the public during the edition on resistance and understanding and no less than 50 documentary films that urge communication in a world increasingly dominated by polarisation will be screened. Over 25 filmmakers, including ten international filmmakers, and several NGOs, media platforms and people active in civil society will take part in the Q&As and discussions that will accompany almost all the screenings of the festival.
Among the foreign guests are directors Matteo Severi, Farah Kassem, Kinshuk Surjan, Lesia Diak, Steven Eastwood and Georgia Kumari Bradburn, visual artist Rami El Sabbagh and filmmaker Marc Isaacs.
The invited Romanian directors are Mihai-Gavril Dragolea, Radu Constantin Mocanu, Anelise Salan, Lina Vdovii and Radu Ciorniciuc, Tudor Platon, Ioana Grigore, Cristian Georgescu, Simona Constantin.
In the "Extended Dialogues" section, historians Adrian Cioflanca and Florin Muller "will clarify the discussions related to the legionaries in the 'Vintage Fascism' screening," while Una Toma and Elena Enache will dialogue, after the "Blockade" screening, with two students who participated in recent protests in Serbia.
As every year, organisations, media platforms and ambassadors symbolically "adopt" a documentary congruent with their mission in the following: Iulia Hau, journalist, and Nawanjana Nisitha, photographer - "Taman-Taman (Park)", Greenpeace, Mediawise Society and Alex Zlavog, vlogger - "The White House Effect", ACCEPT Association - "Trans Memoria", Una Toma, actress and performer, and Elena Enache, civic activist - "TheBlockade", Neurodivers - "The Stimming Pool", F-SIDES and Feminism Romania Association - "Marching in the Dark", Mohamad Zatari, musician - "A Syrian Love Story", Fundraisers for Falastin - "Resistance, why?" and "Arab-Israeli Dialogue", UNHCR, UN Refugee Agency - "The Guest", Radu Stochita and Calin Caciuleanu, journalists, and Paula Carlan, manager of the ALFA Cartel - "We are not our parents", Recorder - "Tooth and Nail."
The informal meetings "OWR Historian at Coffee" will bring to the fore on April 5 the first years of the festival, and, on April 6, the curatorial directions from the beginning to the present, at the Media Hall of the National Museum of the Romanian Countryside. Admission is free.
At the same time, at the proposal of the European network KineDok, cultural managers, cultural organisations, film club organisers and documentary film enthusiasts who want to join the programme "How to prepare a screening space" are expected on April 9, at the Media Hall of the National Museum of the Romanian Countryside.
The cultural project organised by the One World Romania Association is funded by the Ministry of Culture and the Administration of the National Cultural Heritage.
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