Hate Radio (screening of documentary film) — Milo Rau / International Institute of Political Murder (Switzerland / Germany) | FESTIVAL AKCENT 2014

Twenty years ago, in the spring of 1994, Rwanda suffered the most brutal genocide since the end of the Cold War. Hundreds of thousands of Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed with primitive weapons, machetes, sticks and rifles. But the most powerful weapon that incited the genocide was the RTML radio station.

The broadcast of pop music, sports and news was subtly imbued with ethnic hatred and calls for blood. Swiss director Milo Rau has through theatre reconstructed an hour-long broadcast, which from the sounds of popular music transforms into a laboratory of racist ideology.

SOUVENIR SHOP 2 – An interactive installation by Eliška Vrbová and Renata Malá
A memory shop in the form of a non-traditional jukebox. Instead of your favourite songs you can choose a trip down memory lane with a miner from Kladno or a grandmother from the Ore Mountains.
Located in the foyer of the theatre throughout the festival.

5. TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OD DOCUMENTARY THEATRE

Prague – Archa Theatre and Baráčnická rychta / Plzeň – KC Peklo

November 20—30

Complete program of the festival

The co-organizer of Akcent is  Plzen 2015 – European Capital of Culture.

The following performances will be presented in Plzen:

Thursday, 20 November, 19:30 , Plzen – KC Peklo theatre - video
Kim Hwang (South Korea) – Pizzas for the people
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il loved pizza. He decreed that the whole nation must taste this delicacy. But in Pyongyang there is only one pizzeria. Kim Hwang created a video in which he teaches North Koreans how to bake pizza themselves. With the help of Chinese businessmen he smuggled disks with the video into North Korea. The result of all this is the subject of Hwang's film-theatre performance.
In Korean with Czech and English subtitles.

Thursday, 27 November, 19:30, Plzen – KC Peklo theatre
Barbora Schneiderová / Storytelling CZ and Plechárna Černý most
Sheet Metal Suburb
Five stories from the Prague suburb of Černý Most. Who can best tell you about the houses, streets and people in Černý Most? Those who live there. The storytellers are people from the suburb, neighbours and friends. You can meet them every day in the same bus or convenience store.  Five different perspectives on life in the suburbs.

Sunday, 30 November, 19:30, Plzen – KC Peklo theatre
Jana Svobodová, Philipp Schenker / Theatre Archa – vadí-nevadí.cz / Who's a chicken and who's a hero?
In the small East Bohemian town of Kostelec nad Orlicí three communities live side by side: long-time ethnic Czech residents, Roma, and foreigners in the local refugee camp. A team from the Archa Theatre together with representatives of all these groups created a moving theatrical depiction of life in a regular town.