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One World 2010 winning films have now been announced

The award-winning films of the 12th edition of the One World Film Festival have been announced. The awards will be presented to the filmmakers during the closing ceremony on Thursday evening at the Lucerna Cinema.


The films in the main competition competed for the Best Film Award and Best Director Award chosen by the Grand Jury. This year the Best Film Award goes to the film Enemies of the People. The Czech Minister of Culture will award the prize to the film’s director Rob Lemkin.

 

The Best Director Award goes to the documentary Chemo by Polish director Pawel Łoziński.


The Rudolf Vrba Award is given to the best film in the Right to Know category. The Jury that decides on this award this year is deliberately made up not of filmmakers but of charismatic, brave individuals working in the field of human rights. The Rudolf Vrba Award goes to the film The Sun Behind the Clouds.
The award will be accepted by the film’s two directors Ritu Sarin and Tenzing Sonam and by the executive producer of the film Francesca von Habsburg-Lothringen.

 

The Rudolf Vrba Jury awards Special Mention to the film Tibet in Song.

 

The documentary The Sun Behind the Clouds will also receive the Václav Havel Special Award as a film that uniquely contributes to the defence of human rights, awarded by the Jury whose honorary chair is Václav Havel.


The Czech Radio Award for creative use of music and sound in a documentary film will be awarded to the Czech film directed by Tomáš Kudrna All That Glitters.


The Student Jury Award for the best film in the One World collection of films for students will be awarded by the Student Jury to the director Marije Meerman for her film I Wanna Be Boss.


The winner of the VŠEM Audience Award is the Czech documentary The Unwelcome by Tomáš Škrdlant.


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"Do not lose hope" is the message from Václav Havel to the awarded Iranian student leaders

11.03.2010 | 11:13

The annual Homo Homini award has been given this year to two Iranian student leaders Majid Tavakoli and Abdullah Momeni, both of whom have been repeatedly imprisoned for their activities. Abdullah Momeni was released on bail on 7th March, 2010 five days before he was supposed to start his new sentence in prison. The Homo Homini award is a symbolic photograph that shows a human chain in Czechoslovakia in 1989. The picture – signed by Václav Havel – is a form of support for all of the Iranian student activists. Václav Havel also stated in his message:

 
"I found myself in high political position thanks to peaceful public demonstrations and thanks to the students, who led them and made them happen. As a result, I have an elevated sensitivity for certain things and am deeply outraged and shocked that for participating in similar demonstrations in Iran, people are not only being sentenced to several years in prison, but are even being executed."


Václav Havel expressed his congratulations to the students. "I am glad that the prize has been given to them and I wish for them not to lose hope."  The whole message of Václav Havel is available here.
 

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