Program One World Romania

Filmul câștigător va fi anunțat la Gala de închidere OWR18 din 12 aprilie. Filmele incluse în competiția Juriul Liceenilor la OWR18 sunt: Mila 23 / 23 Mile (r. Mitch McCabe) Taman-Taman (Parc) / Taman-Taman (Park) (r. So Yo-Hen) The Stimming Pool (r. Benjamin Brown, Sam Chown-Ahern, Robin Elliott-Knowles, Georgia Kumari Bradburn, Lucy Walker, Steven Eastwood) Trans Memoria (r....See more details

Directed by: So Yo-Hen Documentary – Taiwan – 2024 – 101 min Section: Dialogues Two poets meet at night in Tainan Park, creating poetry inspired by the day's experiences, weaving imaginative, fable-like verses that transform the night into a canvas of untold stories, with the storytellers merging into the tales they weave.

Directed by: Pablo Álvarez Mesa Documentary – Columbia, Canada – 2024 – 76 min Section: Reverberations 200 years after Simón Bolívar’s liberation campaign across Colombia, “The Soldier’s Lagoon” retraces The Liberator’s journey across the high-altitude marshlands, while searching for glimpses of his ghost still present in this historically contested territory and reflecting on the construction of oral history and its relation to the land. 

Directed by: Sergei Loznitsa Documentary – Netherlands, France, USA – 2024 – 145 min Section: Exist to Resist Ten years after the release of his epic film “Maidan,” Sergei Loznitsa resumes his Ukrainian chronicles by documenting the country’s struggle against the Russian invasion....See more details

Directed by: Ana Rieper Documentary – Brazil – 2024 – 76 min Section: Reverberations A documentary about the legacies of the Brazilian colonial condition present today in people’s daily life. With a musical narrative, and using archival footage of different natures, the film proposes a restless journey through relationships forged by the ownership of land and people....See more details

Directed by: Zvika Gregory Portnoy, Zuzanna Solakiewicz Documentary – Poland, Qatar – 2024 – 78 min Section: Exist to Resist In 2021, the border area between Poland and Belarus became a forbidden zone, three kilometers wide, where refugees found themselves brutally trapped. Maciek lives with his family on the Polish side of the border....See more details

Directed by: Kinshuk Surjan Documentary – Belgium, Netherlands, India – 2024 – 108 min Section: Exist to Resist Intent on providing a better life for herself and her children after her farmer-husband’s suicide, Sanjivani struggles against her culture’s traditional abandonment of widows, until she joins a discussion group with other farmer-suicide widows....See more details

THE SHARDS Directed by: Masha Chernaya Documentary – Georgia, Germany – 2024 – 90 min Section: Exist to Resist In Spring 2022 Masha prepares to leave Russia — her homeland that has changed. It turns into chain of unexpected farewells: her mom dies of cancer, her lover flees army conscription, everything including her own old self is falling apart....See more details

Directed by: Bonni Cohen, Pedro Kos, Jon Shenk Documentary – USA – 2024 – 96 min Section: Reverberations Three decades ago, the world was poised to stop global warming. Using exclusively archival material, “The White House Effect” tells the origin story of the climate crisis and how a political battle in the George H....See more details

Directed by: Pablo Álvarez Mesa Documentary – Columbia, Canada – 2024 – 76 min Section: Reverberations 200 years after Simón Bolívar’s liberation campaign across Colombia, “The Soldier’s Lagoon” retraces The Liberator’s journey across the high-altitude marshlands, while searching for glimpses of his ghost still present in this historically contested territory and reflecting on the construction of oral history and its relation to the land.