Health is your right

    3rd International Human Rights Documentary film Festival One World Bulgaria will be held from the 4th to the 10th of October 2010 in Sofia, and also will have screenings in Plovdiv and Burgas in November. The third edition of the festival concerns themes of the present day as the world ecological and spiritual crisis, the right of ordinary relations between people. The festival positions in the centre the person himself, but not his rights according to documents and resolutions. Human, - his health and his right for information are the themes of One World Film Festival this year.

After the successful second edition of the festival last year, from 4th to 10th of October 2010 we will forget all the delusions about our life and we will look for alternatives about raising the quality of our existence through the documentary movies and the ongoing events of the festival.

      One of the main rights of the human for normal and quality life is his right for health. Finally this was recognized by the human rights specialists in the world, it was published in 2009 bulletin №8 of the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee: http://www.bghelsinki.org/bulletin/2009-8/pravoto-na-zdrave-e-syshto-pravo-na-choveka.

      As every year we are showing quality documentary movies, which are international prize winners. On the occasion of the year of the Bulgarian cinema we have prepared special selection of 15 Bulgarian documentary movies about human rights in the programme "The Recovering Of The Bulgarian Documentary Cinema"

      With the third edition of the festival "ONE WORLD" we move our focus from the problems with the medicines' prices, incompetent doctors, precious operations and failing of the health insurance fund to practical information how every person could help his body, cure himself and stop getting ill.

      Nor the legislation, nor social help, protests or money helped for resolving the problems of the Bulgarians with their rights to have an ordinary health care. Signing of charters or resolutions, talking and participating in Facebook causes and groups doesn't help at all. It is time to change the model of healthcare and to be activated the inner powers of the Bulgarian population, poisoned by reality shows, food of poor quality and turbo folk. How this could happen you can understand from the screenings of the festival and various ongoing events as "The „Disproof” – informational campaign about health and happiness, festival of all involved in the sector health and personal growth in Bulgaria, discussions with skilled people in the sphere of healthcare and personal development as the founders of Health Centre "Dar" which was created 17 years ago - Aleksei Skvortsov and Lazarina Dimitrova, doctor Yasencheva - iris diagnostics practitioner, combining classical medical education with methods of naturopathy.

"One world" shows us the world as it is. This is the festival, which does not put make up to the actors, because they are real people, the festival which does not judge, because the people in the audience will make their own conclusions, the festival which is screening with no compromise and only the films with a character.

One World 09 Final Report

Here you can find the final report from One World festival 2009 in Sofia.

3-rd International Documentary Film Festival One World 2010

The dates for the Third edition of the festival are set for October 4-10th! More info about the festival is coming soon!

The only way and solution

After the successful launch of the first edition of the International festival of documentary films on human rights "One World" in May 2008 http://bgoneworld.org/ , we are pleased to present you 2009 selection of internationally acclaimed features, docs as well as shorts.

The Human Rights House of Sofia is organizing for second time the festival with the kind and fruitful assistance and of the Association of Young Psychologists in Bulgaria "April 4“.

The second edition of the festival would like to remind people watch and alert on breaching of fundamental rights and enjoy and satisfy freedoms and their lives as an ultimate desire of each of us.

The selection under the film category The Only Way will encourage viewers to build on a world of human potential. Our Only Way is to achieve inner peace, then peace will come to the whole world. The documentary films do narrate on how difficult a person, a society or a political system can achieve and fulfil the basic principles of living in a world of resolved conflicts, a world of kindness, wisdom, love, truth, righteousness and virtue.

Inspiring life of mankind is a main message of the documentary "Darshan" by the great French director Jan Kounen. The film presents one of the most popular personalities of India, Sri Amritanandamayi Devi – AMMA, who is advocating and defending human rights around the world. The programme features films such a s "What about Me?", "Kymatica", "Short Cut to Nirvana", "One", "Zeitgeist Adendum", "Ashes and snow", "Water" and others thrilling titles.

The Human Dignity film category will draw your attention to successful practices of advocating problems of human rights, such as the Brazilian film footages of Favela Rising http://www.favelarising.com/ , The Day After Peace of Jeremy Gilliam, starring Jude Law, ttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A85s5ZOTSXk, Inclusion series of Jack Comfort http://www.inclusionseries.com/, Jihad for Love of the Indian director Parvez Sharma.

The program includes films such as "So, what?" and "Still", two documentaries of the great Bulgarian filmmaker Nikola Kovachev. A special selection of films will feature the best Bulgarian documentaries produced in recent years, while another film selection will bring Bulgarian viewers closer to the French documentaries’ merits.

The organizers react to the extreme interest of young and modern people to documentary shorts and prepare a special selection of short docs from the Media That Matters Festival http://www.mediathatmattersfest.org/pressexclusive, and the Prague-based One World Festival.

The film category includes also a Bulgaria socio video art "Mind the Steps" by the curator Atanas Dzhonov http : / / www.members.optusnet.com.au / ozaharieva / AtanasDjonov.html

The rich programme of accompanying events offers our guests face-to-face meetings with Jackie Comfort - a director and defender of rights of people with special needs in Israel, and the famous as amazing psychologist and expert in innovative methods of education - Howard Garner http://www.infed.org/thinkers/gardner.htm .

The program includes screenings for students in the morning hours combined with awareness discussions and meetings with directors of films.

An ethno jazz concert will perform at the Czech Centre, the One Giant Leap party is scheduled at the Art-Hostel, and last but not least the NGO activists will be meeting for a fruitful discussion on the Documentary films as a modern tool for human rights education in Bulgaria. Guest filmmakers will meet the students from the New Bulgarian University and the College of Arts. The exhibition of Dimitar Svilenov http://dimitar-svilenov.hit.bg/ will also be part of the festive of human rights documentaries in Sofia.

The organizers are inviting guests to join the film discussions and the roundtable on Human Rights as values and virtues encouraging positive changes and combating injustice around the world.

The screenings will take place in the Czech Centre, the French Cultural Institute, and tea of Benkovski, the Red House and the Polish Institute.

Please do not miss the festival thrilling events and new titles of the festival programme, go and visit our website on www.bgoneworld.org.

Film Programme Sofia 2009

The program of the Festival includes screenings from 23 till 29 of November, over 50 screenings for schoolchildren and adults. The early screenings for children are under request. The entrance fee for the evening screenings is 3/6 lv., some of the films are with free entrance.

You can download the programme here.

You can download the catalogue of the films here.

The screenings could be seen in the following cinemas:

Czech Centre
100 Rakovski Str.

French Cultural Institute
2 Dyakob Ignatii Str.

Euro-cinema
17 Aleksander Stamboliiski Boul.
Entr. 6 lv.

The Red House
15 Lyuben Karavelov Str.
Entr. 3 lv.

Art Hostel
21 Angel Kanchev Str.
Free entrance

Tea House
11 Benkovski Str.
Free entrance

Gammallery
Evlogy Georgiev Boul.