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“I’m honoured that Cinema for Peace invited me to serve as chair for the 2008 gala. Tonight, I am asking each of you to add
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your name and go on record to say no to violence against women. One in three women may suffer from abuse and violence
H O N O R A R Y C H A I R S UNIFEM Goodwill Ambassador Nicole Kidman,
Catherine Deneuve, Joseph Fiennes, Christopher Lee, Anna Netrebko, Susan Sarandon and Hilary Swank
in her lifetime. It is a pandemic. Please, please help us. Let survivors of violence around the world know that they can count
E V E N T C H A I R S Nadja Auermann, Joschka Fischer, Garry Kasparov, Jan Josef Liefers, Heike Makatsch,
Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Katja Riemann, David de Rothschild, Danis Tanović
on us … It’s very telling that Cinema for Peace is tonight honouring a remarkable woman, who championed human rights,
V I C E C H A I R S Hans-Reiner Schröder, Christian Angermayer, Jaka Bizilj, Markus Brugger, Dr. Hermann Bühlbecker,
Andrea Dibelius, Joachim Hunold, Peter Krämer, Dr. Florian Langenscheidt, Carola Meier, Bernd Runge, Regine Sixt
stood up to power, unafraid to reveal the truth. Anna Politkovskaya gave her life to give voice to those who are brutally si-
CINEMA FOR PE ACE AWARD 2008 FOR MOS T VALUABLE MOVIE OF THE YE AR
lenced, until she too was brutally silenced. I lend my voice to salute these heroes and those who champion human rights,
for “Persepolis” by Vincent Paronnaud & Marjane Satrapi
presented to Catherine Deneuve (original French voice) and Jasmin Tabatabai
peace and international understanding. This must be the legacy we pass on to all of our children.”
NOMINEES: “A Mighty Heart” by Michael Winterbottom/ “In the Valley of Elah” by Paul Haggis/ “Persepolis” by Vincent Paronnaud &
Marjane Satrapi/ “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” by Julian Schnabel/ “Juno” by Jason Reitman/ “Charlie Wilson´s War” by Mike Nichols
Honorary Chair Nicole Kidman, Cinema for Peace, Berlin 2008
CINEMA FOR PEACE AWARD 2008 FOR MOST VALUABLE WORK OF DIRECTOR, PRODUCER & SCREENWRITER
Diablo Cody, Jason Reitman, John Malkovich, Mason Novick,
Russell Smith & Lianne Halfon
for “Juno”
“… and I’m sure that I share this with many of you here – that storytelling is profoundly healing. It is central to our tribal
NOMINEES: “Juno”/ “Persepolis”/ “The Diving bell and the Butterfly”
with us for thousands of years and will continue to be with us for thousands of years. I had the privilege to be with Jeff Skoll
survival; the telling of stories is essential to our evolution. There is nothing as healing as the telling of a good story. It’s been
– and I hope that Jeff will be a recipient of this Award one day – in the Palestinian refugee camps, where we screened Gandhi
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for Palestinian refugees, thousands of them, hanging from the roofs, crowding the streets, even watching it projected on to
to Malalai Joya & “Enemies of Happiness”
Laudation by Hilar y Swank
the Ramallah wall, and it did have an effect. I know that there was a young farmer who was infl uenced by the Gandhi work-
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shops in the film, who allowed himself to be buried up to his neck in dirt and rubble in front of bulldozers, and he would
Sir Ben Kingsley
for the portrayal of the humanitarian role models Simon Wiesenthal, Itzhak Stern and Gandhi
not move. And he told the Jeff Skoll foundation – and it was relayed to us as filmmakers – that it was because that story had
inspired him. So I want to reassure you all: no matter how trivialised it might be, not matter how distorted it might be, at
CINEMA FOR PE ACE AWARD 2008 FOR MOS T VALUABLE DOCUMENTARY OF THE YE AR
Ralf Schmerberg and Dropping Knowledge
for “Trouble”
the heart of the heart of things, storytelling is profoundly healing. Keep telling stories. Thank you.”
NOMINEES: Michael Moore for “Sicko”/ Christiane Amanpour for “God’s Warriors”/
Don Cheadle for “Darfur Now”/ Ralf Schmerberg & Dropping Knowledge for “Trouble”
Sir Ben Kingsley Recipient of the Honorary Award 2008, Cinema for Peace,Berlin 2008
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for “The Spirit”
by Joseph Fiennes
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Alastair Fothergill, Mark Linf ield, Alix Tidmarsh & Sophokles Taslioulis
for “Earth”
NOMINEES: Leonardo DiCaprio & Nadia Conners for “The 11th Hour”/ Robert Redford & Laura Dunn for
“The Unforeseen”/ Grant Aaker & Josh Wallaert for “Arid Lands”/ Alastair Fothergill & Mark Linfield for “Earth”
Worldwide media coverage with messages by Nicole Kidman on the
UNIFEM- Campaign “Say No to Violence against Woman”, Garr y Kasparov on Anna Politkovskaya, Bob Geldof and the Prosecutor for the
International Criminal Cour t Mr. Luis Moreno - Ocampo on Dar fur.
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Sir Ben Kingsley
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“It was so important to me to write a film with an uplifting message and I want to thank Jason for being so complicit in
“I am deeply thankful to Cinema for Peace for giving me the award of human rights and peace, the two values that my un-
making a women-positive film. (…) We’ve been going to award shows recently but they don’t really mean anything when
fortunate people have been deprived of for two decades. Although the authorities in my country tried every possible way to
you stand in a room like this. We are very proud of this film, but it doesn’t hold the candle to the work that many of you do
prevent me of being with you here today, I am here and accept this award on behalf of oppressed Afghan women who do
here tonight. It’s a film that stands on the shoulders of many great women, starting with its writer Diablo Cody, and it con-
not have the opportunity to speak for themselves.”
tinues down to the great characters that she created who make very brave decisions that make us believe in hope. I learnt
Malalai Joya, Cinema for Peace, Los Angeles 2008
everything about tolerance from my mother, I learnt everything about love from my wife and I learnt everything about hope
from my daughter, so I can’t think of anything more deserving than the cause you have chosen this year and I applaud that
“When Hollywood makes movies about heroes they always have big muscles and even bigger guns. And no one would mistake Anna
and I am very grateful for this award.”
Politkovskaya for that kind of a hero. Her heroism was a different one. Heroism of the pen and of the truth. Two days after she was
Jason Reitman, Cinema for Peace, Berlin 2008
brutally murdered in Moscow President Putin here in Germany said that her death caused more damage to Russia than her writings.
And it shows his relations with free media and also it shows, as with all dictators he doesn’t understand the power of inspiration.”
“I am truly honoured to present this award to a woman who is a personal inspiration to me and to people all over the world.
Garri Kasparov, Cinema for Peace, Los Angeles 2008
I believe that I speak for everyone gathered here tonight to honour you and your work when I say: we stand by you, behind
you, for you, to help carry your voice for justice. Not only in Afghanistan, but the world. You are a shining example of how one
“I am the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. I am investigating crimes against humanity in Northern Uganda. I am
person can make a difference in millions of lives and in the future of millions. Bless you, Malalai, may God be with you.”
investigating massive rapes against the people of the Central African Republic. I am monitoring crimes. In Darfur, the court issued
Hilary Swank, Cinema for Peace, Berlin 2008
a warrant against Ahmed Haroun, a minister of the government of Sudan, and a Janjaweed militia leader. Why am I here? I need
filmmakers to explain to global audiences how massive crimes affect the global community and how global institutions work.”
“Thank you very much, Cinema for Peace, for supporting films – over the seven years and the films tonight – where the heart
Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Cinema for Peace, 2008
and the senses and charity and tolerance all have room to breathe. Thank you.”
Joseph Fiennes, Cinema for Peace, Berlin 2008
Diablo Cody and Jason Reitman
Hilary Swank
Joseph Fiennes
Malalai Joya
Garri Kasparov
Luis Moreno-Ocampo
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“A little small event has turned into something that strikes fear into the oppressor and hope into the oppressed and for
When I started acting, my hope was to find the thing inside me that connects me to everyone and as I continued to grow
those of you taking pictures tonight, for those of you writing about this evening, it is the great shame of journalists that
as an artist, the primary thing I continued to look for is that same thing. I found out that I’m from a tribe in East Africa
you write about the film stars’ dresses and the soccer stars’ indiscretions and the pop stars’ drinking and drug taking – but
and I went back there and went to a place called The Cave Of The First Man, which is underneath the roots of a tree. When
when a journalist, a fellow journalist is murdered by the state, where are you? What I would like tonight, what I would like
I reached the tree, I realised I was going back to mankind and it gave me a huge connection to everyone, and to you. And
to ask those of you who are editors, those of you who are journalists, the journalistic trade unions – now when I return to
I’m so grateful to be a part of this, because this is trying to love and to understand that we’re all connected in the deepest
England, I will ask the journalists’ trade unions – as Garri Kasparov has just told us about the miraculous and the moving
possible way: in our hearts and in the life that rests inside of us. This is a great honour and I thank you for this moment.
vigil outside Anna’s flat. From now on, on Putin’s birthday (note: this was also the day Anna was murdered), let us take as
Forest Whitaker, Cinema for Peace, Berlin 2007
many journalists as possible – they can pay for it themselves – let the trade unions, the journalist trade unions, gather their
members from all over the world and go to Moscow and stand outside Anna’s flat. She is not dead, she is a living emblem
… Any time China is dealt with, Tibet must be brought up. I’ll tell you the story of a monk who escaped from Tibet and had
of hope and journalists must bear vigil to this hope. Every year on Putin’s birthday, you journalists!”
an audience with the Dalai Lama. The Dalai Lama remembered him from before 1959 and he was not a really great monk.
Bob Geldof, Cinema for Peace, Berlin 2008
He asked him about his life and he prostrated himself before His Holiness and he said he was ok and talked about his times,
but there was one moment of danger. His Holiness had heard a lot of these stories before and assumed he was going to
“The International Human Rights Film Award will be granted for the very first time in order to highlight and support ex-
talk about being tortured, as he had in fact been. He said yes, he had been in danger – the danger of becoming angry, the
tremly couragous action in the fight for peoples dignity.“ Marianne Faithfull: „Human Rights have become non-existent in
greatest sin for a Tibetan. Being capable of forgiving, being capable of seeing the humanity in a torturer – it’s a jewel that
Chechnya. But there have been two extraordinary women who have tried to make a difference. They have been gathering
we cannot allow to be destroyed. And freedom for all and every faith of China and Tibet. Think what you can do to help. It
proof for murder and human rights violations in order to bring the guilty to court. Despite the most brutal threats nothing
can be done. Every time you hear the word ‘China’, think about Tibet. Think about this jewel – this jewel, this power of love
has stoped them!“Antonio Banderas: „But those threats have became a terrible reality. Just a few months ago, one of them,
and compassion. China – Tibet, Tibet, every time you hear it. Thank you very much.
the russian journalist Anna Politivskaja was murdered in cold blood.”
Richard Gere, Cinema for Peace, Berlin 2007
Antonio Banderas & Marianne Faithfull, Cinema for Peace, Berlin 2007
Antonio Banderas, Marianne Faithfull, Eric Bergkraut, Zainap Gaschaeva
Forest Whitaker and Sharon Stone
Richard Gere
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“Welcome to the Oscars with brains! … Making movies for box office is great, making movies for box office that allow us
“It is time to trust our hearts – the human heart that resists killing and embraces compassion and reason. With the heart
to think is important. That’s what Cinema for Peace is and I am so proud to sit next to Michael Caton-Jones for his movie
of an artist and the soul of a warrior we must once again reject the fist of the fool.”
Shooting Dogs!”
Tim Robbins, Cinema for Peace, Berlin 2005
Bob Geldof, Cinema for Peace, Berlin 2006
“I am curious about power, I am curious about the physics of power. I am curious about the paranoia of power, because
“I want to thank you for this award. It means a lot to me because the last time I was there for the Cinema for Peace a couple
the need for power exitsts because it is a replacement for the soul … And a poet that was a favourite of mine as a kid, Carl
of years ago, after walking in and coming home to the United States I was called a traitor to my country, mostly because I
Sandburg, said: The path of a frail flower up has somtimes shattered and split a rock.”
happened to have been showing up at the Cinema for Peace, which is sort of striking. It made me a little angry and I wrote
Dustin Hoffman, Cinema for Peace, Berlin 2003
this film because of that – so you can honestly say that you were an active participant in us making this film! I am very proud
to accept it and I am very sorry I am not able to be there, but we have someone very special that’s going to show up and
“I think it is now time for the artists, for the philosophers, and the poets, and the filmmakers to take some responsibility
accept it for me and I hope you welcome him. Thank you very much, I appreciate it!“
and share their anguish and their pain, because if they share their anguish and their pain, there is a possibility that we will
George Clooney, Cinema for Peace, Berlin 2006
all feel compassion … Let the artists, poets, and philosophers of today collaborate to create that critical mass of peace
consciousness and change world consciousness so that the very idea of a violent solution to problems becomes abhorrent,
“… I think it is the responsibility of the artists once in a while to switch on the monitor in our comfortable lives to hear the
becomes obscene, becomes disgusting, becomes shameful, becomes disgraceful!”
cry that is happening elsewhere abroad. If we can do that – just somtimes remind people that simultaneous with our lives
Deepak Chopra, Cinema for Peace, Los Angeles 2003
there is a terrible injustice, a terrible suffering and that is the next thing to do. Ed Murrow said in that speech in Good
Night, and Good Luck that if we don’t do that, television is just wires and lights in a box – and cinema is just a way of selling
popcorn and buying humans a new house.”
Richard Curtis, Cinema for Peace, Berlin 2006
Bob Geldof
Georg Clooney
Richard Curtis
Tim Robbins
Dustin Hoffman
Deepak Chopra
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The power of Moving Pictures – the social,
political and cultural responsibility of filmmakers
The Cinema for Peace Initiative:
Proving artists can make a difference
Moving pictures shape our perseption of reality. In our visual age, the role of the film artist is crucial in influencing
Since 2002 Cinema for Peace has been a worldwide initiative, promoting humanity through film while inviting members
our views and action. Cinema for Peace highlights the responsibility of the world of film and media. War, terrorism and
of the international film community to attend the annual Cinema for Peace Awards-Gala-Night at the Berlin International
humanitarian catastrophes are sad realities in many parts of the world, and since our perception of this world is so fun-
Film Festival. Showcasing cinematic work which highlights the human condition and human values, we have created a
damentally shaped by the media and by pictures, it is clear that film has a particularly important role to play. No other
platform for peace and tolerance. During the evening’s proceedings at the Konzerthaus, while excerpts from exemplary
medium has such a direct impact on the consciousness and emotions of the people and consequently, filmmakers have
works are screened, directors and producers are celebrated with the Cinema for Peace Award for commendable works.
particular responsibility in our global society.
Cinema for Peace brings together international star guests and global personalities from the world of film, media, politics, business and society, while celebrating the power of the moving image and its ability to unite cultures. This prestigious event is a symbol of peace, freedom and tolerance, a symbol with a lasting effect on the world of film and media,
initiating important projects and the free exchange of ideas.
Bowling for
Columbine
Schindler’s List
Good Night,
and Good Luck
Hotel Rwanda
Dead Man
Walking
No Man‘s Land
The Girl in
the Café
The Best Years of
Our Lives
Welcome
to Sarajewo
Darfur Now
Gandhi
I have never
forgotten you
Cinema for Peace 2003: Dustin Hoffman’s speech received positive responses from the world media
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and moved the 600 gala guests, including George Clooney.
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Cinema for Peace –
6 years of dedication and action
Cinema for Peace Award Laureates
After six years since the launch of Cinema for Peace, our focus is as topical as ever. Since the celebrated premiere in Febru-
2002
Cinema for Peace Honorary Award to Istvàn Szabo for his portrait of the jewish struggle for survival after World War II
ary 2002, the Cinema for Peace initiative has received outstanding praise from the global public. In 2006 George Clooney
2003
Cinema for Peace Award for Most Valuable Movie of the Year for ‘No Man’s Land’ to Danis Tanovic
announced that his Oscar-nominated film ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’ was prompted by the reaction to his visit to Cinema
2004
Cinema for Peace Honorary Award to Lars von Trier
Cinema for Peace Award for Most Valuable Movie of the Year for ‘Country of my Skull’ to Director John Boorman and Producer Robert Chartoff
for Peace: “… you can honestly say that you were an active participant in us making this film!” Many exceptional films have
received our highest accolade, the Cinema for Peace award, including Danis Tanovic for his Oscar winning film ’No Man’s
2005
Cinema for Peace Award for Most Valuable Movie of the Year for ‘Hotel Rwanda’ to director Terry George and producer Alex Kitman Ho
2006
Cinema for Peace Award for Most Valuable Movie of the Year for ‘Good Night, and Good Luck’ to George Clooney and Grant Heslov
Land’ in 2003, which Cinema for Peace distributed in the Germany speaking territories, and ‘Hotel Rwanda’ by Terry George
Cinema for Peace Award for Best Director, Producer or Screenwriter to David Yates and Richard Curtis for ‘The Girl in the Café’
and producer A. Kitman. In 2003 Dustin Hoffman’s speech caused worldwide media interest – proving the ability of artists to influence public opinion on a global level. In 2006 Richard Curtis received the Cinema for Peace Best Director for
Cinema for Peace Honorary Award to Michael Winterbottom
2007
Cinema for Peace Award for Most Valuable Movie of the Year for ‘Flags of our Fathers’ and ‘Letters from Iwo Jima’ to Clint Eastwood
‘The Girl in the Café’. Cinema for Peace produced a German remake of this film in 2007 that was televised at prime-time.
Cinema for Peace Award for Best Director to Bille August for ‘Goodbye Bafana’
5 million viewers saw it two weeks prior to the G8 summit in Germany, when it provided a clear message to fight extreme
Cinema for Peace Award for Best Actor to Forest Whitaker for ‘The Last King of Scotland’
poverty. In 2007 Cinema for Peace produced several G8-campaigns including an Africa-Campaign with Europe’s biggest
Cinema for Peace Pioneer Award presented by BMW CleanEnergy to Bob Geldof
selling newspaper ‘BILD’ and Bob Geldof, who was Editor in Chief for one day at the end of the campaign. The film ‘Letter
International Human Rights Film Award by Amnesty International and Cinema for Peace to Zainap Gaschaeva and ‘Coca –
The Dove from Chechnya’
to Anna’, which was initiated at the Cinema for Peace Gala in 2007, had its premiere at the Berliner Ensemble at Cinema forPeace 2008 and it has been awarded for ‘The Audience Award’ at the ONE World International Human Rights Documentary
Film Festival 2008 in Prague by Vaclav Havel.
2008
Cinema for Peace Award for Most Valuable Movie of the Year to Vincent Paronnaud & Marjane Satrapi for ‘Persepolis’
Cinema for Peace Award for Most Valuable Work of Director, Producer & Screenwriter to Diablo Cody, Jason Reitman, John Malkovich,
Mason Novick, Russell Smith & Lianne Halfon for ‘Juno’
International Human Rights Film Award by Amnesty International, Cinema for Peace and Human Rights Film Network to Malalai
Joya for ‘Enemies of Happiness’
Cinema for Peace Honorary Award to Sir Ben Kingsley for the portrayal of the humanitarian role models Simon Wiesenthal, Itzhak Stern and Gandhi
Cinema for Peace Award Most Valuable Documentary of the Year to Ralf Schmerberg and Dropping Knowledge for ‘Trouble’
Cinema for Peace Award Most Valuable Short Film of the Year to Joseph Fiennes for ‘The Spirit’
Anna Politkovskaja
The World Peace Flame was lightened by Ela Gandhi and Christopher Lee
Title page of ‘BILD’
Cinema for Peace Pioneer Award presented by BMW CleanEnergy to Alastair Fothergill, Mark Linfield, Alix Tidmarsh &
Sophokles Taslioulis for ‘Earth’
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Cinema for Peace and United Nations Funds –
International initiatives with humanitarian goals
Special Initiatives
UNIFEM is the women’s fund at the United Nations. Established in 1976, it provides financial and technical assistance
to innovative approaches aimed at fostering women’s empowerment and gender equality. Today the organization’s work
You watched the genocide in Bosnia and promised it would never happen again.
You became aware of the genocide in Rwanda when it was too late.
touches the lives of women and girls in more than 100 countries. Placing the realization of women’s human rights at
DARFUR IS HAPPENING NOW!
the centre of all of its efforts, UNIFEM focuses its activities on reducing women’s poverty, ending violence against
Keep your promise, stop the genocide, stop the war now!
women, reversing the spread of HIV/AIDS among women and girls, and supporting women’s political participation. To
pursue these goals, UNIFEM works with countries to formulate and implement laws and policies to eliminate gender
discrimination in such areas as land and inheritance rights, decent work for women and ending violence against women.
Sudan
Darfur
UNIFEM also aims to transform institutions to make them more accountable to gender equality and women’s rights, to
strengthen the capacity and voice of women’s rights advocates, and to change harmful and discriminatory practices in
society. www.unifem.org
“Women want a world free from hatred, violence and poverty,
a world of equal opportunities and rights, a world that is
prosperous and secure for all.”
Noeleen Heyzer, Executive Director, UNIFEM
Amnesty International promotes both
Cinema for Peace plans the initiative
“Artist 8”. The “Artist 8” shall remind
the presidents of the G8 of the promises they have made in 2005 and of the
millennium goals of the UN. The “Artist 8” initiative shall not represent the
world of arts, but presents 8 singular
opinions of critical ar tists.
The main topics of the “Artist 8”-panel
shall be:
documentaries and feature films. In
• “The Millenium Goals –
a Halftime Analysis”
discussions and talkshows surrounding
• “G8 against Poverty –
Keep the Promises”
the films, the filmmakers, human rights
• “Stop the War in Darfur”
activists and audience have the oppor-
Further media workshops
are planned on:
tunity to exchange ideas and view. In
2008 Amnesty International will corporate with Cinema for Peace on “Movies
That Matter“.
• “Artists and Media infl uencing
Society – Images on our Minds”
• “Make Poverty History”
• “Human Rights – Everywhere”
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Cinema for Peace –
distributing and producing inspiring movies
Politkovskaya‘s life. A Letter to Anna is a personal search for clues which establish a number of previously unpublished
records. But A Letter to Anna is also a political film that shows how the Russian government turns back the wheel of history. It sheds dramatic light on the state of freedom of the press and opinion in Putin’s Russia.
Cinema for Peace distributes valuable movies (for example, the Oscar-winning anti-war satire No Man`s Land), as well as
With: Vera Politkovskaya (daughter), Ilya Politkovski (son), Alexander Politkovski (ex-husband), Zainap Gaschaieva
producing valuable movies itself with inspiring messages. In 2007, together with Richard Curtis and SAT 1, Cinema for
(friend/ human rights activist), Andrei Mironov (friend/peoples’ rights activist), Elena Tregubova (exiled journalist),
Peace produced the G8-feature movie Suddenly Gina, which was seen by nearly 5 million TV viewers and was sold world-
Boris Beresovski (oligarch and exilied opposer of the regime), Garri Kasparov (former chess champion and leader of the
wide with all revenues going to „Schools for Africa“, an initiative by UNICEF and the Nelson Mandela Foundation. In 2008,
opposition), Yuri Tschaika (Russian General State Prosecutor, former justice secretary). A production of p.s. 72 produc-
our documentary A Letter to Anna about the murdered Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaja directed and produced by
tions and zero one film in coproduc-
Eric Bergkraut, had its premiere on February 2008, after being initiated on stage at Cinema for Peace 2007!
tion with SF, ZDF, 3sat, mdr, rbb and
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2 0 0 7 : S U D D E N LY G I N A
BY MARIA VON HEL AND
Suddenly Gina, a remake of the hugely successful BBC movie The Girl in the Café by Richard Curtis, is the story of the shy
workaholic bureaucrat Laurens and his life-changing relationship with the unconventional girl Gina. The film features
Julia Jentsch, Jan Josef Liefers, Iris Berben, Catherine Deneuve, Andrea Sawatzki and Jürgen Heinrich. Laurens is a man
2008: A LETTER TO ANNA
loyal to his job. As advisor to the German Finance Minister, Lau-
BY ERIC BERGKRAUT
rens spends his entire day brooding over documents. Then one
On 7th October 2006, Vladimir Putin’s 54th birthday, the journalist Anna Politkovskaya was shot dead in the elevator
day he meets an enigmatic woman named Gina, who intrigues
of her Moscow apartment. Anna’s death is a personal drama; she had just found out that she was going to be a grand-
Laurens with her sheer vitality. Suddenly aware of everything that
mother. Her death, however, is also a political act, since Politkovskaya was an outspoken critic of the president.
has been missing from his staid and lonely life, Laurens now faces
Why was this elegant woman, who always stood up for the weak and those without rights, murdered in cold blood? Was
a difficult choice – could he possibly give up his career for love?
it to do with her work against the war in Chechnya? A war which the world barely noticed, yet was the turning point in
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2007: I DON’T FEEL LIKE DANCING
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Excerpt from the Cinema for Peace guest list:
BY EVI GOLDBRUNNER AND JOACHIM DOLLHOPF
Robert Altman
Joschka Fischer
Diane Kruger
Friede Springer
Nadja Auermann
Friedrich Christian Flick
Lang Lang
Sharon Stone
Bille August
Richard Gere
Florian Langenscheidt
Istvan Szabo
just a minor incident among the cruelties of war which you wouldn’t even find in the newspapers. But it makes the point
Antonio Banderas
Hannelore Elsner
Christopher Lee
Donald Sutherland
of how people’s characters change within an inhumane environment where people separate into villains or victims and
Boris Becker
Andrew Eaton
Dani Levy
Hilary Swank
Iris Berben
Joseph Fiennes
Jan Josef Liefers
Jasmin Tabatabai
Senta Berger
Ela Gandhi
Bai Ling
Danis Tanovic
begin to see each other as persons with a history again.
Alfred Biolek
Katja von Garnier
Liza Minelli
Gloria von Thurn und Taxis
Winning the Cinema for Peace Talent Award 2007 they were
Moritz Bleibtreu
Bob Geldof
Liz Mohn
Franziska v. Almsick
Detlef Buck
Hans-Dietrich Genscher
Roger Moore
Jack Valenti
John Boorman
Günter Grass
Bernd Neumann
Otto Waalkes
Michael Caton-Jones
Oliver Hirschbiegel
Marc Owen
Wim Wenders
Robert Chartoff
Dustin Hoffman
Maren Otto
Vievienne Westwood
Deepak Chopra
John Hurt
Simon de Pury
Forest Whitaker
Sabine Christiansen
Maybritt Illner
Milo Radulovich
Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul
2006: DINNER FOR ALL – NOT THE SAME PROCEDURE AS EVERY YEAR
George Clooney
Bianca Jagger
Christina Rau (First Lady)
Michael Winterbottom
BY NIKO K ARO
Arthur Cohn
Grace Jones
Katja Riemann
Sönke Wortmann
Klaus Wowereit
How to show the mechanism of war in a few minutes? This was the question the film students Goldbrunner and Dollhopf
asked themselves when confronted with the Cinema for Peace shortfilm competition Movies that matter. Their story tells
encounter each other as enemys or objects. And amidst the destruction it implies the hope that people may wake up and
given the opportunity to realize their idea and make a short
film which can be understood without dialogue.
Richard Curtis
Wolfgang Joop
Tim Robbins
This German theatrical spot Same Procedure as Every Year – Dinner for All, was aimed at the G8 summit in June 2007 in Heili-
Thomas D.
Milla Jovovich
Stan Rosenfi eld
gendamm, Germany. In the spot
Mark Damon
Patricia Kaas
David de Rothschild
Catherine Deneuve
Begum Aga Kahn
Susan Sarandon
Bob Geldof and Katja Riemann
Waris Dirie
Garri Kasparov
Otto Schilly
advocate justice for Africa and
Doris Dörrie
Sir Ben Kingsley
Ulla Schmidt
ask to support Chancellor An-
Faye Dunaway
Vitali Klitschko
Volker Schlöndorff
Bernd Eichinger
Wladimir Klitschko
Scorpions
Marianne Faithfull
Eva Luise Köhler (First Lady)
Heide Simonis
Giora Feidman
Dieter Kosslick
Regine Sixt
Veronica Ferres
Thomas Kretzschmann
Smudo
gela Merkel to convince the G8
leaders to keep their promises.
in cooperation with
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the comprehensive support for Cinema for Peace
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COMMITTEE
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Christian Angermayer
Liza Minelli
and the Nobel Peace
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Prize Winners
Andrea Dibelius
Monica Bellucci
Liam Neeson
Oscar Arias Sanchez
Carola Meier
Dr. Hermann Bühlbecker
Katja Riemann
and Jody Williams
George Clooney
Tim Robbins
Richard Curtis
David de Rotschild
SUPPORT COMMIT TEE
Catherine Deneuve
Ralf Schmerberg
Celia von Bismarck
Joschka Fischer
Susan Sarandon
Olaf Brandenburg
Joseph Fiennes
Hilary Swank
Frank Briegmann
Ela Gandhi
Jasmin Tabatabai
Prof. Jo Groebel
Katja von Garnier
Danis Tanovic´
Mario Hempel
Sir Bob Geldof
Giuseppe Tornatore
Gerhard Janetzky
Milla Jovovich
Bob Weinstein
Gerhard Kämpfe
Garri Kasparov
Harvey Weinstein
Klaus-Peter Kofl er
Nicole Kidman
Vivienne Westwood
Michael Kucharski
Ben Kingsley
Sönke Wortmann
Gerd Harry Lybke
Vitali Klitschko
Klaus Wowereit
Thorsten Rudolph
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2002-2006
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2002-2006
CINEMA FOR PEACE
2007
CINEMA FOR PEACE
2007
Richard Gere, Sharon Stone and Bob Geldof
Richard Gere
Forest Whitaker
Marianne Faithfull, Eric Bergkraut & Zainep Gaschayewa
Joseph Fiennes
Tokio Hotel
Diane Krüger
Christopher Lee
Antonio Banderas
CINEMA FOR PEACE
Diablo Cody and
Jason Reitmann
Garri Kasparov
2008
CINEMA FOR PEACE
Malalai Joya
Waris Dirie and Bob Geldof
Hilary Swank
2008
Alix Tidmarsh and Sophokles Taslioulis
Ben Kingsley and Danis Tanovic
Nicole Kidman
Jasmin Tabatabai, Heike Makatsch and Uwe Ochsenknecht
Hilary Swank and Luis Moreno-Ocampo
Joseph Fiennes
Catherine Deneuve
Joschka Fischer and Minu Barati
David de Rothschild and Anna Netrebko
Vitali Klitschko at the Auction
Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul
CINEMA FOR PEACE
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Media Coverage Cinema for Peace (Selection)
Media Coverage Cinema for Peace 2008
Print national
Print international
230.200.760
app.
million readers
ca. 200.000.000 million readers (not verified)
In the last years, there have been coverages in such newspapers as NY Times, International Herald Tribune, Variety , Vanity Fair.
TV national
TV international
180.020.000
app.
million viewers
ca. 300.000.000 million viewers (not verified)
In the last years, there have been coverages in such TV-channels as BBC, CNN, Fox, CNBC, ABC, CBS, etc.
Internet
682.380.000
million visitors
Australia
Canada
Finland
The Age (1,000,000)
Herald Sun (1,500,000)
Daily Telegraph (1,200,000)
The Australian (453,000)
The Australian Financial
Review (176,000)
The Globe and Mail (1,965,991)
National Post Europe (1,502,649)
La Presse (1,426,067)
Toronto Star (3,292,031)
7 Päivää TV-Extra (217,000)
Helsingin Sanomat (455,000)
Ilta-Sanomat (219,000)
MTV 3 Nachrichten
Yle Radio
People’s Republic of China
ORF
Neue Kronenzeitung (1,000,000)
China Radio International
Sichuan Ribao (8,000,000)
Renmin Ribao (3,000,000)
Gongren Ribao (2,500,000)
Xin Min Wan Bao (1,750,000)
Belgium
Croatia
Le Soir (137,328)
Het Nieuwsblad (227,577)
Het Volk (114,473)
Het Laatste Nieuws (264,241)
Vers L’Avenir (106,035)
STINA News Agency
HINA Kroatische Nachrichtenagentur
HRTV Hrvatska
Austria
In the last years, there have been coverages in such websites as nytimes.com, foxnews.com, yahoo.com, youtube.com, guard-
Brazil
ian.co.uk., thesun.co.uk, looktothestars.com, bbc.co.uk, msnbc.msn.com, etc.
O Globo
Folha (287,842)
Czech Republic
Ceská Televize Filmopolis
Czech Radio
Mlada fronta DNES (1,300,000)
Denmark
In Total
1.092.600.760
Bulgaria
Bulgarian National TV
Danmarks Radio
Ekstra Bladet
Jyllands-Posten
TV2
France
Arte
Canal+ Le Grand Journal
Courrier International (180,000)
Europe 1 (radio)
France 2 (tv)
Le Figaro (347,000)
Le Monde (360,000)
Le Point (358,000)
L’Express (554,000)
Libération (216,000)
Radio France
Paris Match (707,000)
Marianne (118,000)
Le Nouvel Observateur (544,000)
France Dimanche (575,000)
Voici (575,000)
Ici Paris (442,000)
Gala (304,000)
Entrevue (308,000)
Le Monde Diplomatique (240,000)
Etudes (140,000)
Elle
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Greece
Latvia
Russian Federation
Antenna ANT1
ERT
Eleftherotypia (1,858,316)
LTV Latvian State Television
Latvijas Radio
De Telegraaf (850,000)
Izvestiya (263,000)
Trud (1,700,000)
Argumenty/Facty (2,880,000)
Komsomolskaya Pravda (27,000,000)
Kommersant (117,340)
Novaya Gazeta (670,000)
Norway
Slovakia
NRK Norsk Rikskringkasting
Dagbladet (206,000)
VG-Verdens Gang (365,000)
TV2
Aftenposten (288,000)
NRK
Pravda
Novy Cas (New Time) (147,719)
Netherlands
Hungary
Magyar Hirlap
Nepszabadsag (200,000)
Iceland
Frettabladid
Ireland
The Irish Times (119,252)
Sunday Independent (310,580)
Sunday World (301,748)
Irish Independent (168,253)
Italy
RAI
Corriere Della Sera
La Repubblica
Poland
PAP Polnische Presse-Agentur
Polityka (300,000)
Polskie Radio Online
TVP1/2/3
Gazeta Wyborcza (600,000)
Rzeczpospolita (260,000)
Super Express (500,000)
Japan
Portugal
The Asahi Shimbun (12,601,375)
The Mainichi Newspapers (5,845,857)
The Nihon Keizai Shimburi (2,705,877)
Expresso (136,845)
Jornal de Noticias (101,448)
Romania
Libertatea (200,000)
Jurnalul National (150,000)
Neue Luzerner Zeitung (133,590)
Aarganer Zeitung (118,126)
Spain
RTV
ABC (302,000)
Canal+ Bazar
El Mundo (272,000)
El País (450,000)
Radio Nacional De España Servicios
Informativos
Tele 5
TVE
Pronto (877,000)
Hola (597,000)
Sweden
Turkey
Aftonbladet (412,000)
Dagens Nyheter (361,000)
Expressen (327,000)
Svenska Dagbladet (128,000)
Sveriges Radio
Sabah
TRT International
Slovenia
Switzerland
Basler Zeitung (114,503)
Neue Zürcher Zeitung (169,623)
Sonntags Zeitung (218,518)
Facts (104,462)
Blick (309,309)
Tages-Anzeiger (268,179)
Die Sudostschweiz (138,893)
Berner Zeitung (136,610)
UK
BBC News
BBC Radio 3
BBC World Service
BBC Online (4,900,000)
Daily Mail (2,400,000)
Evening Standard (209,395)
Financial Times (79,915)
The Daily Telegraph (408,305)
The Guardian (282,347)
Daily Mirror (1,394,159)
Daily Star (359,304)
The Sun (2,168,753)
Daily Express (653,276)
The Independent (144,199)
The Times (434,056)
Sunday Star (270,422)
News Of The World (2,786,320)
Sunday Mirror (1,221, 968)
The People (685,538)
Sunday Express (668,492)
Sunday Post (141,868)
Mail On Sunday (1,836,136)
Independent On Sunday (119,232)
Observer (335,532)
Sunday Telegraph (205,941)
Sunday Times (868,135)
Hello
OK
Vogue
GQ
Ukraine
Kanal 1+1
NRCU Radio Ukraine
Fakty I Komentarii (1,019,000)
Silski Visti (476,000)
USA
CNN
The Hollywood Reporter
Los Angeles Times (1,231,318)
MTV Networks
The New York Times (1,683,855)
Time Magazine
Variety
The Washington Post (960,684)
USA Today (2,528,437)
Wall Street Journal (2,058,342)
New York Daily News (795,153)
Vanity Fair
Vogue
INTERNATIONAL NEWSWIRES
Reuters
Press Association
International Herald Tribune
»Peace is compassion. Peace is understanding and acceptance.
Peace is the absence of hunger, thirst and illness …
Let us stand up for our dream and try to prove
that artists can make a difference.«
Susan Sarandon, Honory Event Chair »Cinema for Peace«, Berlin 2005
Contact: Star Entertainment GmbH, Hegelplatz 1, D-10117 Berlin – Phone + 49 30 20 45 67 0, Fax + 49 30 20 45 67 21, info@cinemaforpeace.com