Cinema for Peace Gala Nominations 2012
The Cinema for Peace Award for the Most Valuable Film of the Year 2012
In the land of blood and honey
During the Bosnian War, Danijel, a soldier fighting for the Serbs, re-encounters Ajla, a Bosnian who's now a captive in his camp he oversees. Their once promising connection has become ambiguous as their motives have changed.
the descendants
A land baron tries to reconnect with his two daughters after his wife is seriously injured in a boating accident.
Albert nobbs
Albert Nobbs struggles to survive in late 19th-century Ireland, where women aren't encouraged to be independent. Posing as a man so she can work as a butler in Dublin's most elegant
The help
An aspiring author during the civil rights movement of the 1960s decides to write a book detailing the African American maids' point of view on the white families for which they work, and the hardships they go through on a daily basis.
war horse
Young Albert enlists to serve in World War I after his beloved horse is sold to the cavalry. Albert's hopeful journey takes him out of England and to the front lines as the war rages on.
where do we go now
A group of Lebanese women try to ease religious tensions between Christians and Muslims in their village.
the ides of march
The Ides of March - Tage des Verrats is a movie starring Paul Giamatti, George Clooney, and Philip Seymour Hoffman. An idealistic staffer for a new presidential candidate gets a crash course on dirty politics during his stint on the campaign trai
extremely loud and incredibly close
A nine-year-old amateur inventor, Francophile, and pacifist searches New York City for the lock that matches a mysterious key left behind by his father, who died in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
The International Green Film Award 2012
burning in the sun
26-year-old charmer Daniel Dembele is equal parts West African and European, and looking to make his mark on the world.
the tree of life
Promised Land is an award-winning social justice documentary that follows two tribes in the Pacific Northwest: the Duwamish and the Chinook, as they fight for the restoration of treaty rights they've long been denied.
the dark side of chocolate
In the cocoa plantations of Ghana and the Ivory Coast, children aged from 7 to 15 years old, with the promise of paid work, are forced into slave labor. Does the world know about the dark side of chocolate?
The Cinema for Peace Award for the Most Valuable Documentary of the Year 2012
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
A further followup of the case of the West Memphis Three and the decades long fight to exonerate them that finally gained traction with new DNA evidence.
You Don't Like The Truth 4 days Inside Gauntanamo
The interrogation recordings of the underaged Canadian Guantanamo Bay prisoner, Omar Khadr, by Canadian intelligence personnel are presented with observations by his attorneys and former cell mates.
leaving baghdad
Leaving Baghdad is a road movie that follows Sadik, the personal cameraman to the leader Saddam Hussein, at the end of the nineties.
The Cinema for Peace Award for Justice 2012
After the Silence
He was pacifist and a humanist, fighting for understanding and compasion in the dialog between Israelis and Palastinen. However, on the 31st March 2002 Israeli Dov Chernobroda was killed by a S
justice for sergei
The death in prison of Sergei Magnitsky, a young Russian lawyer, remains one of the darkest scandals in the blotchy history of Russia's criminal justice system.
granito
A story of destinies joined by Guatemala's past, and how a documentary film intertwined with a nation's turbulent history emerges as an active player in the present.
in darkness
A dramatization of one man's rescue of Jewish refugees in the German-occupied Polish city of Lvov.
a SEPARATION
A married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.
the lady
The story of Aung San Suu Kyi as she becomes the core of Burma's democracy movement, and her relationship with her husband, writer Michael Aris.