The One World International Human Rights Film Festival has unveiled the full programme for its 2026 edition. Running from 11 to 19 March across ten Prague cinemas, before extending through Prague Echoes and a nationwide rollout until 24 April, the festival will present 106 films in total, including 82 documentaries, 16 fiction features and 8 virtual reality works.
This year’s edition opens on 11 March with the presentation of the Homo Homini Award to Belarusian opposition figure and political prisoner Mikola Statkevich, whose continued resistance to dictatorship gives the festival a powerful political anchor before a frame is even projected. The opening-night film, Meant to Be, then turns toward another fault line in the region: contemporary Hungary. Directed by Olivér Márk Tóth, the world premiere follows rap star Pogány Induló in what the festival describes as a generational portrait of youth, pressure and authenticity in an increasingly tense political climate.
The core programme is divided across the festival’s established competition sections: International Competition, Czech Competition, Right to Know and Virtual Reality. Together, they map a world defined by war, systemic violence, fragile intimacies and contested futures. In the International Competition, films such as Voice of Hind Rajab and My Word Against Mine bring audiences to present-day Palestine and into therapeutic confrontation, while works including Desert Passages, The Sandbox, River Dreams and 32 Metres explore power, youth, identity and patriarchal constraint. The Czech Competition, meanwhile, looks inward through titles addressing loneliness, trauma, ecological precarity and social breakdown, including Action Item, 80 Angry Journalists, Homeless Blues and Better Go Mad in the Wild.
The broader thematic sections expose crises, but also identify forms of courage, care and continuity within them. «Everyday Courage», «Fault Lines», «Climate in Need» and «Vision of Today» organise the programme around questions of dialogue, digital life, political resistance and environmental survival. Guests, including Alisa Kovalenko, Stella Nyanzi, Stefan Komandarev and Manon Loizeau. A retrospective devoted to Norwegian documentarian Gunnar Hall Jensen adds a diaristic and self-reflexive counterpoint to the festival’s more overtly urgent titles.
Beyond screenings, One World continues to expand its role as a public-facing human rights institution. Accessibility remains central to the «One World for All» programme, while the educational strand, «One World in Schools», brings curated screenings and moderated debates to younger audiences. The accompanying programme will include live podcasts, panel discussions, an exhibition by Open Group, and close ties to East Doc Platform, which follows in Prague from 19 to 25 March.
Find the full One World 2026 programme – HERE
