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The Cinema for Peace Foundation has unveiled the nominees for its annual Cinema Dove and Nobel awards celebrating films and world figures whose work tackles key issues of the time.
The winners will be announced on February 16 at a gala event at the historic Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, coinciding with the foundation’s think-tank event, The World Forum on the Future of Democracy, AI/Tech and Humankind.
Titles vying for the Most Valuable Film of the Year prize include Jafar Panahi’s It Was Just an Accident, Paul Thomas Anderson One Battle After Another, Scarlett Johansson’s Eleanor the Great, Kaouther Ben Hania’s The Voice Of Hind Rajab and Oliver Laxe’s Sirât.
The foundation said its chairman Jaka Bizilj had informed Panahi of his nomination personally in New York in December, just after he received the news that he was due to be tried in absentia in Iran, and that the filmmaker had highlighted the plight of friend and Nobel Prize winner Narges Mohammadi in the ensuing conversation.
In other categories, Oscar long-listed 2000 Metres to Andriivka is vying for the For the Most Valuable Documentary of the Year award, while further Academy Award doc hopefuls Coexistence, My Ass! and Cover-Up are in the running for Political Film of the Year.
Nominees for foundation’s the Noble Prize include Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo López, who was sentenced to 14 years in jail in 2014 for his democracy campaign, but managed to escape the country disguised as an electrician in 2020 while under house arrest.
“The time has come for Leopoldo Lopez, María Machado and the really elected President Edmundo Urrutia to free and lead their people,” said Cinema for Peace chairman Jaka Bizilj, who recently exchange with the leaders in exile.
“Neither Maduro’s proxies and vice president nor the US have the right to run the country, it needs to be legitimate elected leaders.”
Slovenian promoter and producer Bizilj created the Cinema for Peace Foundation in 2008 as an international non-profit organization with the goal to foster change through film.
It has worked with a host of stars including Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Leonardo DiCaprio, George Clooney and Oliver Stone , as well as activists such as exiled Russian Pussy Riot co-founder Nadya Tolokonnikova.
In 2020, it was instrumental in helping to airlift from now late Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny out of Russia to Germany following his poisoning in 2020.
The Peace Dove and Nobel nominations and awards are decided by the foundation and The World Forum.
In recent years, more than 50 films honoured or nominated by Cinema for Peace earned Academy Award nominations, with more than 20 winning Oscars in major categories including Best Picture, Best International Feature, and Best Documentary Feature, including I Am Still Here, The Zone of Interest and All Quiet on the Western Front.
Cinema for Peace also produces, with recent credits including The Crane’s Call, about an investigation into Russian war crimes committed in Ukraine, and The Quiet Diplomat about former Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon.
Cinema for Peace Dove For The Most Valuable Film of the Year
- Bugonia directed by Yorgos Lanthimos
- Eleanor the Great directed by Scarlett Johansson
- It Was Just an Accident directed by Jafar Panahi
- Nuremberg directed by James Vanderbilt
- One Battle After Another directed by Paul Thomas Anderson
- Rental Family directed by Hikari
- Sirât directed by Oliver Laxe
- Two Prosecutors directed by Sergei Loznitsa
- The Voice of Hind Rajab directed by Kaouther Ben Hania
- The Wizard of the Kremlin directed by Olivier Assayas
Cinema for Peace Dove For The Most Valuable Documentary of the Year
- 2000 Metres to Andriivka directed by Mstyslav Chernov
- Can’t Look Away: The Case Against Social Media directed by Matthew O’Neill & Perri
- Peltz
- Children in the Fire directed by Evgeny Afineevsky
- Molly vs The Machine directed by Marc Silver
- Of Mud and Blood directed by Jean-Gabriel Leynaud
- Steal This Story, Please! directed by Tia Lessin, Carl Deal
- The Road Between Us directed by Barry Avrich
- The Last Twins directed by Matthew O’Neill & Perri Peltz
- There Is Another Way directed by Stephen Apkon
- This Ordinary Thing directed by Nick Davis
International Green Film Award
- Ocean with David Attenborough directed by Colin Butfield, Toby Nowlan & Keith Scholey
- Super Nature directed by Ed Sayers
- Trade Secret directed by Abraham Joffe
- The Last Dive directed by Cody Sheehy
- Yanuni directed by Richard Ladkani
Cinema for Peace Dove for Women’s Empowerment
- Cutting Through Rocks directed by Mohammadreza Eyni & Sara Khak
- The Last Ambassador directed by Natalie Halla
- Love + War directed by Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi & Jimmy Chin
- Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore directed by Shoshannah Stern
- Prime Minister directed by Lindsay Utz & Michelle Walshe
- Sally directed by Cristina Costantini
- Young Mothers directed by Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne
Cinema for Peace Dove for The Political Film of the Year
- Bodyguard of Lies directed by Dan Krauss
- Cover-Up directed by Laura Poitras & Mark Obenhaus
- Coexistence, My Ass! directed by Amber Fares
- Facing War directed by Tommy Gulliksen
- Food Delivery: Fresh from the West Philippine Sea directed by Baby Ruth Villarama
- My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow directed by Julia Loktev
- The Six Billion Dollar Man directed by Eugene Jarecki
- The Librarians directed by Kim A. Snyder
THE Noble Prize as Guardians of Democracy
- Pope Leo for “The Noble Prize as The Man of the Year”
- Nancy Pelosi for “The Noble Prize as Guardian of Democracy”
- Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya for “The Noble Prize as Guardian of Democracy”
- Albie Sachs for “The Noble Prize as Guardian of Democracy”
- The World Liberty Congress with Masih Alenijad, Leopoldo Lopez and Garry Kasparov as “Guardians of Democracy”
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