As we reach the end of One World Bratislava, talk in the Nisimazine office is turning to summarising the highlights of the week and the range of important issues tackled. From Burmese repression to the Arab Spring, from climate change to the fight for net neutrality – the programme has certainly offered a broad snapshot of current affairs.

Meanwhile, outside of the workshop bubble, it’s been hard not to notice a number of rapidly paced and mostly alarming developments going on in the world right now. One interesting thing about visiting a documentary festival is that you often end up watching related events unfolding in parallel moments in time – at the cinema and on news reports.

Given the ever shortening gap between the occurrence of events and their appearance on screen, I couldn’t help but wonder then about the potential titles to be found in near future editions of Jeden Svet. Next year, will we be deliberating over whether to go see The Collapse of the Eurozone, Bombs Over Tehran, or One Year of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt? And will there be Q&As to enjoy after screenings of Putin’s Return, The Day the World Solved Climate Change, and Zuckerberg’s Downfall ?

As a non-believer of Mayan prophecies, I think that time will tell for a long while yet… and that documentary filmmakers will continue to bring us their insights in ever more innovative ways.

By Jude Lister