Cinema for Peace awards


Cinema for Peace Awards are prizes awarded by the Cinema for Peace Foundation, a Berlin-based initiative that claims to raise awareness for the social relevance of films. Since 2002, Cinema for Peace has been inviting film makers, humanitarian and human rights activists, and public figures to its annual awards ceremony in Berlin to honor a selection of cinematic works on humanitarian and environmental issues. The event occurs at the same time as the Berlin International Film Festival.
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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".

Activities

Cinema for Peace as global initiative regularly acts in many countries. Cinema for Peace screenings, campaigns, advocacy events, and galas have been taking place for example at the Filmfestival in Cannes, in Los Angeles on the occasions of the Golden Globes and on Oscar weekend, in Uganda at the conference of the International Criminal Court, and in Berlin, where Cinema for Peace annually highlights the most valuable films of the year at the Cinema for Peace Gala.
The Cinema for Peace Foundation organizes various monthly screenings, mainly through partnering cinemas, such as the Schikaneder in Vienna
Cinema for Peace distributed the Bosnian Oscar-winning war satire No Man's Land by Danis Tanovic.
In 2014, Jaka Bizilj as the Founder of Cinema for Peace invited Pussy Riot to the Olympic Games in Sochi and brought them to Hollywood and to Washington 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, Richard Gere, Dustin Hoffman, Elton John, Nicole Kidman, Sir Christopher Lee, Sean Penn, Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, Hilary Swank, Wim Wenders, Ban Ki-moon, Luis Moreno-Ocampo and Fatou Bensouda as well as Mikhail Gorbachev.

Awards

2004

  • The Cinema for Peace Dove for The Most Valuable Film of the Year: Country of My Skull by John Boorman

2005

  • The Cinema for Peace Dove for The Most Valuable Film of the Year: Hotel Rwanda by Terry George

2006

2007

2008

  • The Cinema for Peace Dove for The Most Valuable Film of the Year: Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud
  • The Cinema for Peace Dove for The Most Valuable Documentary of the Year: Trouble - Teatime in Heiligendamm by Mind Pirates Community
  • The International Green Film Award: Earth by Alastair Fothergill and Mark Linfield
  • Special Award: the makers of The Experimental Witch, initiated by Paolo Coelho and created with the original work of 14 filmmakers from around the world.

2009

2010

2011

2012

  • The Cinema for Peace Dove for The Most Valuable Film of the Year: In the Land of Blood and Honey by Angelina Jolie
  • The Cinema for Peace Dove for The Most Valuable Documentary of the Year: Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory by Joe Berlinger
  • The Cinema for Peace Dove for Justice: Granito by Pamela Yates; Justice for Sergei by Hans Hermans and Martin Maat
  • The International Green Film Award: Burning in the Sun by Cambria Matlow and Morgan Robinson

2013

2014

  • The Cinema for Peace Dove for The Most Valuable Film of the Year: 12 Years a Slave by Steve McQueen
  • The Cinema for Peace Dove for The Most Valuable Documentary of the Year: Syria: Children on the Frontline by Marcel Mettelsiefen
  • The Cinema for Peace Dove for Justice: #chicagoGirl: The Social Network Takes on a Dictator by Joe Piscatella
  • The International Green Film Award: Big Men by Rachel Boynton

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

  • The Cinema for Peace Dove for The Most Valuable Film of the Year: Capernaum by Nadine Labaki
  • The Cinema for Peace Dove for The Most Valuable Documentary of the Year: The Heart of Nuba by Kenneth A. Carlson
  • The Cinema for Peace Dove for The Political Film of the Year: Watergate by Charles Ferguson
  • The Cinema for Peace Dove for Justice: Two Catalonias by Álvaro Longoria and Gerardo Olivares
  • The Cinema for Peace Dove for Women’s Empowerment: RBG by Julie Cohen and Betsy West
  • The International Green Film Award: The Elephant Queen by Mark Deeble and Victoria Stone

2020

2021

2022

2023

2024

2025