About Festival

One World is currently one of the leading festivals in Europe dealing with human rights issues. The festival is a founding member of the Association of Human Rights Festivals joining 17 festivals from around the world.
The mission of One World is to provide complex and balanced information thus enabling deeper understanding of crucial foreign relations and social topics and their interconnections
One World contributes to the public discussion on the role Czech citizens and the Czech Republic should play in today´s globally interconnected world.
Most importantly, One World convincingly shows the public why the Czech Republic should engage in promoting democracy and security in the world.
The target audiences of One World are young people, university as well as secondary school students. They are presented with a set of values essential for free and democratic societies by means of human rights documentaries.
The festival serves as a source of inspiration and strength for those who believe that personal civic engagement can bring about true and positive changes.
It is a privilege of One World Festival to award the thus far only international human rights award Homo Homini.
The festival programme covers highest quality documentary films completed in the previous year and awarded at prestigious international festivals. In addition, it also includes investigative and activist films, which draw attention to the gravest issues and human rights violations.
One World is a meaningful discussion forum. Discussions of diverse foreign relations, human rights, civil society and ecological topics take place in Prague every year.. Additional discussions will take place in the 28 regional centers.
One World is an educational platform. About 6,000 primary and secondary school students from Prague and around 14,000 from the regions will see the screenings of this year’s festival. A debate will follow after every screening. Taking part in the festival offers young people a more diverse picture of the world, it helps to understand news in a wider context, to break down prejudices, and to learn to express their opinions in an open discussion.
A thematic collection of documentary films and other accompanying teaching materials has been created in the scope of the project One World in Schools. Educators may thus incorporate the instruction in human rights and development assistance into their lesson plans.
Furthermore, over 2600 schools regularly use documentary films in their teaching. These are also provided as part of the project One World in Schools. These screenings are favourably received by the students, educators and specialists and confirm the extraordinary potential documentary films have for the education of young people.
The festival directly initiated the emergence of volunteer free-time activities of student film clubs in the schools which use documentary films from the extensive archives of One World. Not only do student organizers arrange projections of films for their classmates, but they also set up screenings for disadvantaged peers.
One World is a year round institution. In addition to the above mentioned educational projects and other activities it also dedicates itself to promotion of documentary films - e.g. in cooperation with Czech Television or in the form of documentary Mondays at the Světozor cinema.

Within a few years, One World has managed to expand to a number of smaller human rights oriented festivals in Central, Southern and Eastern Europe.