On March 2, 2015 students from 1, 2 and 3
year visited a film festival One World in Schools 2015.
Combating indifference, prejudice and apathy
in Czech society is the goal of the 17th annual One World International Human
Rights Documentary Film Festival.
It is annually organised by People in Need.
Screenings for schools, One World in Schools, is an essential part of the film
festival.
The symbol of this year's festival is a
protective bubble wrap, which needs to be removed.
One World is calling to burst out of our protective
bubbles by attending a screening of a documentary film about current topics and
the panel discussion that follows.
We also burst out of our own bubbles while
choosing a film.
Students
watched a film featuring an environmental theme THULE TUVALU.
Thule a Greenland town is the northernmost
inhabited place on earth. Tuvalu is a Polynesian island. Melting icebergs in
Greenland, rising sea levels, so soon inundate the low-lying Pacific islands.
Places distant from one another more than eleven thousand kilometres are today
fatefully linked. While experts argue over how to prevent climate change, the
inhabitants of Thule and Tuvalu are facing today its irreversible consequences
in everyday life.
The document closely follows the lives of several local
families who realize that their traditional way of life and livelihood is
moving speed of melting ice to change.
Students enthusiastically joined the panel
discussion with a guest on global warming, sustainable development and some
environmentally related issues.
Documentary films are a great way of
initiating debates and promoting interest among students in human rights, global
development education, the environment, racism, and other issues, whilst also
enabling them to form their own opinions and attitudes.
One World in Schools 2015 is an educational
programme.
The programme works with teachers, pupils, and students – providing
them with documentary films and other accompanying materials for learning about
topical themes from today’s world and recent history.
Being inspirited by modern technological
trends an audio-visual portal www.jsns.cz has been designed for teachers and
students, where all educational materials of the One World in Schools programme
online are available for downloading.
One World Film Festival
http://www.jedensvet.cz
