CINEMA FOR PEACE & DEMOCRACY GALA 2026
HONORING THE MOST VALUABLE FILMS OF THE YEAR & THE NOBLE PRIZE FOR GUARDIANS OF DEMOCRACY FOR TAWAKKOL KARMAN, SVIATLANA TSIKHANOUSKAYA, DR. TEDROS & WHO, ALBIE SACHS, LEOPOLDO LÓPEZ, RENÉE GOOD and the PEOPLE OF MINNEAPOLIS
Becca Good, widow of Renée Good, speaks for the first time publicly.
The Cinema for Peace & Democracy Gala celebrated with honorary chairwoman Hillary Clinton the most valuable films of the year and presented the Noble Prize for Guardians of Democracy - including to Renée Good and the people of Minneapolis, with her widow accepting the award in her first public conversation since the mother of three had been killed by an ICE agent.
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THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB by Kaouther Ben Hania.
Accepted by Director Kaouther Ben Hania and Producers Odessa Rae and Nadim Cheikhroua.
Ben Hania told the room: "I will not take this award home. I leave it here as a reminder. And when peace is pursued as a legal and moral obligation, rooted in accountability for genocide, then I will come back and accept it with joy."