Cinema for Peace Gala Nominations 2020
The Cinema for Peace Award for the Most Valuable Film of the Year 2020
The Laundromat
Follows a group of journalists who take part in unearthing 11.5 million files, linking the world's most powerful political figures to secret banking accounts to avoid taxes.
Jojo Rabbit
A young boy in Hitler's army finds out his mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their home.
marriage story
Noah Baumbach's incisive and compassionate look at a marriage breaking up and a family staying together.
Harriet
Based on the story of iconic freedom fighter Harriet Tubman, her escape from slavery and subsequent missions to free dozens of slaves through the Underground Railroad in the face of growing pre-Civil War adversity.
1917
Two young British soldiers during the First World War, are given an impossible mission: deliver a message, deep in enemy territory, that will stop their own men, and Blake's own brother, from walking straight into a deadly trap.
Parasite
All unemployed, Ki-taek and his family take peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks, as they ingratiate themselves into their lives and get entangled in an unexpected incident.
Hidden Life
The Austrian Franz Jägerstätter, a conscientious objector, refuses to fight for the Nazis in World War II.
The Farewell
A Chinese family discovers their grandmother has only a short while left to live and decide to keep her in the dark, scheduling a wedding to gather before she dies.
Little women
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
Bombshell
A few women decide to take on Fox News boss Roger Ailes and the toxic male culture he presided over at the network.
The Cinema for Peace Award for the Most Valuable Documentary of the Year 2020
The great hack
The Cambridge Analytica scandal is examined through the roles of several affected persons.
bellingcat
The “citizen investigative journalist” collective known as Bellingcat is an online association, composed of talented and dedicated truth-seekers. They utilize advanced digital research techniques to upend the world of journalism in cases ranging from the MH17 disaster to the hidden crimes of the Syrian regime.
American Factory
In post-industrial Ohio, a Chinese billionaire opens a new factory in the husk of an abandoned General Motors plant, hiring two thousand blue-collar Americans. Early days of hope and optimism give way to setbacks as high-tech China clashes with working-class America.
I am not alone
On Easter 2018, a man puts on a backpack and begins to walk across Armenia. His mission: to inspire a velvet revolution - and topple the corrupt regime that enjoys absolute power in his post-soviet nation. With total access to all key players, I AM NOT ALONE tells the miraculous story of what happens in the next 40 days.
Apollo 11
A look at the Apollo 11 mission to land on the moon led by commander Neil Armstrong and pilots Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins.
For Sama
A young woman's struggles with love, war and motherhood over the span of five years in Syria.
The cave
Amidst air strikes and bombings, a group of female doctors in Ghouta, Syria struggle with systemic sexism while trying to care for the injured using limited resources.
Honeyland
The last female beehunter in Europe must save the bees and return the natural balance in Honeyland, when a family of nomadic beekeepers invade her land and threaten her livelihood. This film is an exploration of an observational Indigenous visual narrative that deeply impacts our behavior towards natural resources and the human condition.
Dark Suns
Documentary: An epic investigation into countless murders in Mexico. Presented in chapters, the film unfolds methodically through unsettling testimonials, sketching a portrait of an entire country transformed into a gigantic mass grave thanks to a climate of impunity established by both criminal gangs and state authorities.
The rest
"The Rest" is a documentary by Ai Weiwei about refugees who arrived in Europe, the world's bastion of human rights. These refugees fled war and persecution in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and other conflict-ridden countries
The Cinema for Peace Award for Women’s Empowerment 2020
Maxima
A multi-billion dollar corporation meets their match in a fearless Indigenous woman who remains uncowed after years of violent intimidation.
Bombshell
A few women decide to take on Fox News boss Roger Ailes and the toxic male culture he presided over at the network.
A Girl from Mogadishu
Based on the testimony of Ifrah Ahmed, who - having made the extraordinary journey to escape war-torn Somalia - emerged as one of the world's foremost international activists against Gender Based Violence and Female Genital Mutilation
Harriet
Based on the story of iconic freedom fighter Harriet Tubman, her escape from slavery and subsequent missions to free dozens of slaves through the Underground Railroad in the face of growing pre-Civil War adversity.
little women
Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.
Knock down the House
Documentary: At a moment of historic volatility in American politics, four women (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Amy Vilela, Cori Bush, and Paula Jean Swearengin) build a movement of insurgent candidates challenging powerful incumbent Congress. Their efforts result in a legendary upset.
Maiden
The story of Tracy Edwards, a 24-year-old cook on charter boats, who became the skipper of the first ever all-female crew to enter the Whitbread Round the World Race in 1989.
The Cinema for Peace Award for the Political Film of the Year 2020
Citizen K
In 2003, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, one of the richest men in Russia, began a ten-year sentence for tax evasion. Many believed his downfall was challenging then newly elected president Vladimir Putin. During his time in a Siberian prison, Khodorkovsky became a world-famous dissident. Today, exiled in London, he continues to battle Putin’s 19-year hold on power. Exquisitely photographed in the UK, Russia and Germany, Citizen K examines power in Russia.
The Perfect Candidate
A determined young Saudi doctor's surprise run for office in the local city elections sweeps up her family and community as they struggle to accept their town's first female candidate.
The report
Senate staffer Daniel Jones is assigned the daunting task of leading an investigation into the CIA’s Detention and Interrogation Program techniques adopted after 9/11.
XY Chelsea
Documentary: A look at the life and career of Chelsea Manning, a trans woman soldier in the United States Army, who was sentenced to serve 35 years at an all-male military prison for leaking information about the country's wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Official Secrets
Tells the true story of Katharine Gun, a British whistleblower who leaked information to the press about an illegal NSA spy operation designed to push the UN Security Council into sanctioning the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
The Edge of Democracy
Documentary: The 2nd Brazilian's Impeachment, starred by Dilma Rousseff, of Partido dos Trabalhadores
The Cinema for Peace Award for Justice 2020
Dark Waters
corporate defense attorney takes on an environmental lawsuit against a chemical company(DuPont) that exposes a lengthy history of pollution.
The Collini Case
A young lawyer stumbles upon a vast conspiracy while investigating a brutal murder case.
Just Mercy
Just Mercy shadows world-renowned civil rights defense attorney Bryan Stevenson as he recounts his experiences and details the case of a condemned death row prisoner whom he fought to free.
A Regular Woman
Inspired by tragic real-life events, A Regular Woman introduces audiences to Hatun "Aynur" Sürücü”,a vibrant young Turkish woman and mother who was coming into her own in Berlin when she was murdered at 23 by her youngest brother in an honor killing. Forced into an abusive arranged marriage with a cousin in Istanbul at 16 by her devout Muslim family, Anyur escapes to Berlin and gives birth to a son. She is considered a disgraceful burden by her parents and siblings, so Anyur soon leaves her family and attempts to start a new life.
Vivos
Vivos is a documentary feature film by artist and filmmaker Ai Weiwei, portraying the human impact of Mexico's ongoing crisis of enforced disappearances. On the night of September 26, 2014, a convoy of students from Ayotzinapa Rural Teachers' College in drug cartel-afflicted Guerrero state, travelling in buses in the city of Iguala, were brutally attacked by police forces and other masked assailants. In the course of the night, six people were killed, dozens more were wounded, and 43 students were forcibly disappeared. Featuring interviews with family members and surviving classmates, as well as human rights experts and international investigators involved with the case, Vivos depicts the emotional impasse the families experience.
Cold Case Hammarskjöld
Danish director Mads Brügger and Swedish private investigator Göran Björkdahl are trying to solve the mysterious death of Dag Hammarskjöld. As their investigation closes in, they discover a crime far worse than killing the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
The International Green Film Award 2020
Sanctuary
Actor Javier Bardem explores the underwater life of the Arctic by joining a two-man submarine that's launched from a Greenpeace boat just off of the Antarctic Peninsula
And We Go Green
Professional drivers on the international Formula E circuit - like Formula One, but with eco-friendly electric cars - race for victory across 10 cities in this white-knuckle documentary
Sea of Shadows
The vaquita, the world's smallest whale, is near extinction as its habitat is destroyed by Mexican cartels and Chinese mafia, who harvest the swim bladder of the totoaba fish, the "cocaine of the sea." Environmental activists, Mexican navy and undercover investigators are fighting back against this illegal multi-million-dollar business.
Dark Waters
Corporate defense attorney takes on an environmental lawsuit against a chemical company(DuPont) that exposes a lengthy history of pollution.
Watson
Co-founder of Greenpeace and founder of Sea Shepherd, Captain Paul Watson has spent 40 years fighting to end the destruction of the ocean's wildlife and its habitat
Maxima
A multi-billion dollar corporation meets their match in a fearless Indigenous woman who remains uncowed after years of violent intimidation.