The 13th edition of the One World Romania International Film Festival of Documentary and Human Rights will take place from March 20 to 29, in Bucharest. By means of films, debates and events organized on this occasion, it will present current realities from all the corners of the world.
If the 2019 edition celebrated the 30 years from the events in 1989, the 2020 edition will place under a magnifier glass the freedom of mentalities, a field where there are no revolutions, but slow evolutions, measured in decades, sometimes in centuries. At this level, no battle is won for good, as the regular resurgences of racism, anti-Semitism or xenophobia.
The poster of this edition made by Maria Draghici, based on a concept of the author and of the artistic director of the festival,
Andrei Rus, illustrates the equivocal character of the scapegoat, represented by any minority, according to the social and historic context that produces it. In its core there is the Man with no clear identity in the mental state of the majority, urban and rural at the same time – in short, the stranger, the minority person, the side, the periphery and everything that is included in that majority. According to the context, he can be associated with a Roma ethnicity person, with a gay person, a poor one, a refugee or an immigrant.
The photography based on which the visual was built was made with the intention to document the 2008 performance “Who Is Andrei?” of spreeagenten (Berlin, Germany), coordinated by Susanne Chrudina. A different, more recent document is mixed with it, with the purpose of revealing an immediate reality, as relevant as possible, for the present stage of racism in Romania. The results of the four surveys that are on the One World Romania 13 posters series are excerpts from the most recent report of the National Council for Combating Discrimination from 2018. On the one hand they indicate an amelioration compared to the level of racism from the previous studies, but on the other hand they state that racism continues to mark the contemporary society.
With the festival we intend to bring to the attention of the public not only the different kinds of discriminations, but also our attitude, of all of us, in relation with the Other, our easiness to accept stereotypes, even the positive ones, in the attempt to define our identity more easily.
You can purchase the general festival pass for 200 RON, on the Eventbook website. There is a limited number of 100 passes. The pass gives you free access to all film screenings, to the opening event of the festival – which will be very special – to all the One World Romania Cineclub screenings during the entire year, one DVD from the OWR selection, the festival bag and many other film surprises.
Details:
www.festival-oneworld.ro
