One World documentary festival concludes

The One World festival of human rights documentaries concluded in Prague’s Světozor cinema on Thursday with awards presented to the winning films. The Best Film Award will go to the British-Cambodian documentary Enemies of the People, which follows the journalist Thet Sambath as he tracks down former members of the Khmer Rouge in his native Cambodia. The Polish film Chemo about patients at a Warsaw oncology clinic will receive the Best Director Award. The Rudolf Vrba Award for the best film in the Right to Know category and the Václav Havel Special Award for films that uniquely contribute to the defence of human rights will both go to the Indian documentary The Sun behind the Clouds about the Chinese occupation of Tibet.

The One World festival was held in Prague between March 10 and 18. More than 32,000 people saw at least one of over 100 films screened at the festival, which will now move to some 30 cities and towns around the Czech Republic.