The Inter­na­tional Human Rights Doc­u­ment­ary Film Fest­ival One World in Prague ended on 18^th March. Paweł Łoziński, the dir­ector of “Chemo” was hon­oured with the best dir­ector award.

One World fest­ival in Prague is one of the most import­ant film events devoted to human rights. This year’s twelfth edi­tion took place from 10 to 18 March. Dur­ing the clos­ing cere­mony the win­ners of dif­fer­ent con­tests were announced. Pol­ish doc­u­ment­ary “Chemo” was among the win­ners. 
 
The jury awar­ded Paweł Łoziński for choos­ing an extremely dif­fi­cult sub­ject and treat­ing it with an ascetic min­im­al­ism. The director’s superb abil­ity to con­duct the nar­rat­ive of the doc­u­ment­ary and his extraordin­ary sens­it­iv­ity to the psy­cho­lo­gical aspect were also appre­ci­ated. 
 
“Chemo” is a group por­trait of the Warsaw onco­lo­gical hos­pital patients. The prot­ag­on­ists, tak­ing con­sec­ut­ive doses of chemo, talk about every­day issues, their favour­ite dishes, wed­ding dresses, but also about their plans for the future, dreams, fear and anxi­ety, about hope… the video cam­era records these dia­logues with uncom­mon sub­tlety. The dia­logues are often full of black humour, and at the same time they reveal to the view­ers truths and val­ues which emerge only from the dis­tance of the hospital.

Detailed inform­a­tion can be found on the festival’s web­site.