Kdo mě naučí půl znaku?
D: Martin Ryšavý, CZ, 2006, 92 min.
The documentary is about good ideas of uncle Ho, respect for teachers and a return to one's homeland... Or travelling through Vietnam in the footsteps of Czechoslovak-Vietnamese friendship. Who Will Teach Me a Half of a Character follows in the footsteps of former Czechoslovak-Vietnamese cooperation and seeks to sum up its importance in the lives of several Vietnamese citizens. The film also reports on contemporary Vietnam through the experiences of local people who are not separated from Czechs by a language barrier.
Doma tady a ted'
D: Linda Jablonská, CZ, 2008, 26 min.
Czech documentary by IOM and Czech Ministry for labour and social affairs.Three young migrant workers reporting about their life in Czech republic.
WALLS
D: Arie Farnam, CZ/USA, 2008, 60 min., E/CZ subtitles
The state said they were mentally retarded, but they still got top grades. Pepa taught himself English and Anežka dreamed of working in the courts, while young Karel witnessed the conflict on Matiční street, where they built a wall between Roma and whites. The documentary film "Walls" is the story of three Romani children and their struggle to get an education and a real chance for their future. It is the true story of how children unexpectedly achieved a historical breakthrough in a situation that has confounded the entire country.
"Walls" was made in the Czech Republic in 1999-2000 by American journalist Arie Farnam and two film students Matt McClean and Dantia MacDonald. They set out to make an independent film about Romani children in Czech schools and ended up documenting the historic moment when children from the "special schools" for the retarded first won entrance to a secondary school and when the entire situation begain to change. The film is shown at American and European universities in courses studying systematic discrimination and social exclusion.
Ethnic Cleansing in Post World War II Czechoslovakia
Human Rights Documents on Refugees and Migrants
Migration and Human Rights NGOs in Czech Republic
Human Rights Conventions Overview
Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, 1948
Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, 1951
European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights, 1950
Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities, 1995
International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, 1965