WHY DOCUMENTARY? WHY HUMAN RIGHTS?
Throughout its whole tradition as a genre, documentary film has mobilized strong notions of the ‘public’, the ‘social’ and the ‘political’, and has carried meanings of citizenship and engagement. In the recent years, documentary film-makers have growingly asserted themselves as bearers of refreshed thinking, able to produce alternative perspectives on critical issues and radical interrogations of the status quo. Today’s documentarist can be a historian, a story-teller, a detective, an artist, an entertainer, or all at the same time. What matters is less about producing the definitive viewpoint on an issue or another, and more about sparking debate and keeping the conversation going.
Much of today’s documentary world is about building participation models and communities of interest, and about aggregating audiences with shared interests through various media platforms.
One World aims to be such a platform for those prepared to be at the same time cinephiles and active individuals concerned about the world they live in. Our interest goes towards the strongly authored documentary conceived as a cerebral, emotional and political engagement with the world.

One World Romania team