Culture
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Czech EU presidency attracts new audiences to Brussels Czech Center
More than 700 different cultural events have been planned to coincide with the Czech Republic’s EU presidency. While a lot of these concerts and exhibitions are taking…
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Už Jsme Doma
In Music Profile this week, we take a look at one of the mainstays of the Czech alternative music scene, Už Jsme Doma, who are still at the top of their game after almost…
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Rigid Japanese culture like “communism pretending to be capitalism”, says documentary maker Sean…
One of the biggest hits with audiences at the One World film festival, which came to a close in Prague on Thursday night, was Japan: A Story of Love and Hate. It is a…
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Prague’s Vernon Gallery surprises passers-by with conceptual art
Contemporary Czech art made international headlines after the Czech presidency of the European Union unveiled the famous Entropa artefact by David Černý in Brussels in…
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Prague-born documentary maker shows ‘man of the people’ side of Iran’s Ahmadinejad in Letters to…
Letters to the President is a documentary about the president of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, known around the world for his verbal attacks on America and Israel. In this…
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Documentary maker hoping states including US and Czech Republic sign up to International Criminal…
The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court, which has been shown in the One World film festival, focuses on the work of the permanent tribunal…
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Sinocisation policy working, says exile who went undercover in Tibet
Undercover in Tibet, one of over 120 films at this year’s One World festival, features the testimonies of victims of Chinese repression, including a Tibetan monk who…
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Village where signing is lingua franca focus of Israeli documentary Voices from El-Sayed
The film Voices from El-Sayed, currently being shown in the One World festival, focuses on a Bedouin village in the Negev desert in Israel which has the highest…
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Ruth Ellen Gruber, an expert on Jewish heritage and Europe’s country music
For four decades, the countries trapped behind the Iron Curtain attracted only a few travellers from the West. Our guest in this week’s edition of One on One is the…
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Jaroslav Rudiš: craving for noise and silence
If you live in Prague, it is quite likely that you will have encountered Jaroslav Rudiš as a rock musician, performing with gloom and late ‘70s angst with Jaromír 99 and…
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Exchange at last year’s One World inspiration to Czech director of Welcome to North Korea!
Unable to get permission to film there, the young Czech documentary maker Linda Jablonská took a different approach after learning that tourists are allowed to bring video…
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Festival opener focuses on work of Burma’s underground video journalists
The One World festival was launched in Prague on Wednesday night with a powerful documentary called Burma VJ, highlighting the work of brave journalists who secretly film…
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