The One World International Documentary Film Festival will present multiple new Slovak documentaries to audiences in Bratislava. The 27th edition of the festival will take place from October 20 to 25, 2026.
The main competition section, titled Slovakia and Czechia for Human Rights, will present five Slovak films. The festival’s opening film – a world premiere – will be Retuning (prod. CinePunkt), in which director Sára Prokopová documents events surrounding Slovak Television and Radio over the past two-plus years. Also receiving its Slovak premiere is Wasteland Chronicles (prod. filmsomnia) – a film by directors Viera Čákanyová, Lucia Kašová, and Barbora Sliepková that explores three environmental burdens in Slovakia.
Competing for the award is We Have to Survive (prod. HAILSTONE) by Tomáš Krupa, which follows four stories from four different continents regarding adaptation to climate change. Becoming Ema (SK koprod. FRAME FILM), directed by Patricia Drati, captures a young woman’s struggle to break free from the pressure of expectations and forge her own path in life, while in A Pint of Ink (SK koprod. PubRes), Ester Geislerová retraces the footsteps of her father.
Two short films will also premiere in the festival’s Slovakia and Czechia for Human Rights – Out of Competition section. The experimental poetic film Inside (prod. HITCHHIKER Cinema) by director Dorota Vlnová, which explores women’s experiences of abortion, will also screen in the coming weeks at the Ji.hlava IDFF, Festival dei Popoli in Florence, and DOC NYC in New York. In the Shadows, We Lose the Sense of Colour (prod. Super film), by director Lena Kušnieriková, serves as an intimate testimony to how abuse continues to shape a person’s life long after it is over.
More information can be found on the One World festival website
