Cinema for Peace

Cinema for Peace is an initiative that aims to raise awareness for the social relevance of films. Since 2002, the group has been inviting film makers, humanitarian and human rights activists, and public figures to its annual awards ceremony in Berlin, Los Angeles,[1] New York,[2] Cannes,[3] and Kampala[4] to honor a selection of cinematic works on humanitarian and environmental issues.

History

Following the September 11 attacks in 2001, Jaka Bizilj launched the Cinema for Peace initiative with the annual gala as a platform for communicating humanitarian, political and social issues through the medium of film. Bob Geldof described the awards gala as "the Oscars with brains".[5]

Activities

The Cinema for Peace Foundation organizes various monthly screenings, mainly through partnering cinemas, such as the Schikaneder in Vienna [6]

Cinema for Peace distributed the Bosnian Oscar-winning war satire No Man's Land (2001 film) by Danis Tanovic. In 2014, Jaka Bizilj as the Founder of Cinema for Peace invited Pussy Riot to the Olympic Games in Sochi[7] and brought them to Hollywood[8] and to Washington[9] in order to promote global human rights responsibility and advocate a global Sanction List for human rights offenders.

Committee and supporters

Among the Cinema for Peace speakers have been: Buzz Aldrin, Antonio Banderas, Deepak Chopra, George Clooney, Catherine Deneuve, Leonardo DiCaprio, Bob Geldof,[10] Richard Gere, Dustin Hoffman,[11] Elton John, Nicole Kidman, Sir Christopher Lee, Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, Hilary Swank, Wim Wenders, Ban Ki-Moon,[12] Luis Moreno-Ocampo and Fatou Bensouda as well as Mikhail Gorbachev.

Criticisms

During the Cinema for Peace Gala 2016, the columns of the Konzerthaus where the Gala was held were wrapped with refugee Jackets from the island of Lesbos as a part of a temporary art installation by Ai Weiwei, which also included celebrities inside the Gala donning thermal refugee jackets to show solidarity.[13] The picture of celebrities donning the refugee jackets was criticized by Berlinale Director, Dieter Kosslick as being a "new standard of idiocy "[14]. Further criticism of Cinema for Peace has come from a variety of sources, including Stern (magazine),[14] Die Tageszeitung,[15] Frankfurter Rundschau[16] about financial arrangements. The Cinema for Peace Gala organizer replied that all financial arrangements had been made transparent and audited by an independent authority.[17]

Award winners 2002–2019

2002

2003
  • The Most valuable Film of the Year: Danis Tanovic for No Man's Land

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009
  • The Most valuable Film of the Year: Milk and Gus Van Sant, Bruce Cohen, Dan Jinks, Dustin Lance Black, Michael London and Sean Penn
  • Most valuable documentary of the year: The Heart of Jenin and Ismael Khatib, Leon Geller, Marcus Vetter
  • Award for justice: Pray the Devil Back to Hell and Gini Reticker, Abigail Disney, Vaiba Flomo
  • International human rights film award: Burma VJ – Reporting form a Closed Country and Anders Østergaard, Lise Lense-Møller, Aung Htun and The Democratic Voice of Burma
  • Most inspirational movie: The Day After Peace and Jeremy Gilley & Peace One Day; Menachem and Fred and Menachem Mayer, Fred Raymes, Jens Meurer, Ofra Tevet and Ronit Kertsner; and Valkyrie and Tom Cruise, Bill Nighy, Christian Berkel, Matthias Schweighöfer, Bryan Singer and Philipp von Schulthess
  • Contribution to the UN millennium development goals: 8 and Jane Campion, Gael Garcìa Bernal, Jan Kounen, Mira Nair, Gaspar Noé, Abderrahmane Sissako, Gus van Sant and Wim Wenders
  • International green film award: Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Honorary award: Roger Waters

2010
  • The Most valuable Film of the Year: The White Ribbon and Michael Haneke, Stefan Arndt, Klaus Chatten and Burghart Klaußner
  • Most valuable documentary: The Picture of the Napalm Girl by Marc Wiese, Nick Út and Kim Phúc
  • Award for justice (presented by Luis Moreno-Ocampo): Children of War and Bryan Single; The Stoning of Soraya M. by Cyrus Nowrasteh; Women in Shroud by Mohammad Reza Kazemi and Farid Haerinejad
  • Most valuable work of a director/actor/producer: Triage and Danis Tanovic, Cedomir Kolar, Colin Farrell and Christopher Lee
  • International human rights film award: Tibet in Song and Ngawang Choephel
  • Award for reconciliation: Five Minutes of Heaven and Oliver Hirschbiegel, Liam Neeson and James Nesbitt
  • International green film award (presented by Mikhail Gorbachev and Leonardo DiCaprio): Crude and Joe Berlinger
  • Honorary award: As We Forgive and Laura Waters Hinson and Paul Kagame

2011
  • The Most valuable Film of the Year: Of Gods and Men
  • Most valuable documentary of the year: Skateistan – Four Wheels and a Board in Kabul
  • Award for justice: Blood in the Mobile
  • International human rights film award: Marco Arana Zegarra in The Devil Operation
  • International green film award: Jane's Journey; A Message from Pandora; Harmony
  • Honorary award: Sean Penn for his aid work with the J/P Haitian Relief Organization
  • Award for fighting AIDS: Bill Roedy for the “Staying Alive” campaign, the “Ignite” campaign and Shuga

2012
  • The Most valuable Film of the Year: In the Land of Blood and Honey
  • Most valuable documentary of the year: Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (West Memphis Three)
  • Award for justice: Justice for Sergei on Sergei Magnitsky; Granito: How to Nail a Dictator
  • International human rights film award: The Lady and Aung San Suu Kyi
  • International green film award: Burning in the Sun
  • Honorary award: Angelina Jolie and cast for In the Land of Blood and Honey

2013
  • The Most valuable Film of the Year: Lincoln
  • Most valuable documentary of the year: Searching For Sugarman; The Gatekeepers
  • Award for justice:No; Class Dismissed on Malala Yousafzai
  • International human rights film award: Call Me Kuchu, David Kato and Frank Mugisha
  • International green film award: Bitter Seeds
  • Honorary award: Charlize Theron and her Africa Outreach Project
  • Award for opposing anti-semitism: Veronica Ferres, Marga Spiegel and Charlotte Knobloch

2014
  • The Most valuable Film of the Year: 12 Years a Slave directed by Steve McQueen.
  • Most valuable documentary of the year: Alias Ruby Blade by Alex Meillier; Children on the Frontline by Marcel Mettelsiefen and Anthony Wonke; Dirty Wars by Rick Rowley; Everyday Rebellion by Arash Riahi and Arman Riahi; Ground Zero: Syria by Robert King; Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer by Mike Lerner and Maxim Pozdorovkin; Recycling Medea by Asteris Kutulas; The Family by Stefan Weinert; The Kill Team by Dan Krauss; The Missing Picture by Rithy Panh; The Square by Jehane Noujaim.
  • Award for justice:#chicagoGirl: The Social Network Takes on a Dictator by Joe Piscatella.
  • International green film award: Big Men by Rachel Boynton.
  • Honorary award: Nelson Mandela; the makers of Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom; Christopher Lee.

2015

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2016

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2017

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2018

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2019

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2020

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References
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  13. Barnes, Henry (2016-02-16). "Celebrities don emergency blankets at Berlin fundraiser for refugees". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2020-06-08.
  14. ""Das ist das obszönste Foto meines Lebens"" [This is the most obscene photo of my life]. stern.de (in German). 2016-02-18. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
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  16. "Die peinlichsten Momente der Berlinale" [The most embarrassing moments at the Berlinale]. fr.de (in German). 2015-02-13. Retrieved 2019-10-03.
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  25. "Nominations 2019". Cinema for Peace Foundation. Retrieved 2019-05-09.
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