Cinema for Peace Monthly Screenings

WE ARE HAPPY TO ANNOUNCE THAT FROM APRIL 2012 ONWARDS WE WILL EXPAND OUR MONTHLY SCREENING SERIES TO FRANKFURT/MAIN WHERE WE WILL HOST FREE SCREENINGS AT ORFEO'S ERBEN.

Our Monthly Film Series was launched in May 2011 at the occasion of which we presented the documentary „Restrepo” (2010) in remembrance of war journalist & photographer Tim Hetherington who was killed in April 2011 while reporting from the fights in Misrata/Libya. Between May 2011 and March 2012  we have been holding two non-commercial film screenings in Berlin (CENTRAL-Kino) and Hamburg (Kino ABATON) each month. The screenings are followed by a Q&A session with experts on the respective issue.

The series constitutes the foundation’s commitment to fulfil the foundation's mission statement: Per its charter, the Cinema for Peace Foundation endeavours to further peace and understanding worldwide through the support of cinematographic works.

The main purpose of the Cinema for Peace Foundation is the involvement in the production and dissemination of films about the prevention of disease (e.g. AIDS), violence, ecocide, war, poverty and violation of human rights. In order to do so, such films are supported and made accessible through the foundation as widely as possible in an effort to raise awareness about these issues worldwide, both in the first world countries as well as in the afflicted countries.

Cinema for Peace Monthly Screenings:

May 2012: "In the Land of Blood and Honey"

• On the occasion of the upcoming Serbian elections

Guest Speaker in BERLIN: State Secretary HANS-JUERGEN BEERFELTZ, Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ).

Guest Speaker in HAMBURG: Naida Mehmedbegovic, Institut für Friedensforschung und Sicherheitspolitik in Hamburg

Guest Speaker in FRANKFURT: Thorsten Gromes, Hessischen Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung)

April 2012: "Invisible Children: Rough Cut"

• On the occassion of the success of the Thomas Lubunga trial and the issue of child soldiers.

Guest speakers in Frankfurt: Kurt Bangert (expert on child soldiers, World Vision Institute)

Vivien Urbach (terre des homes and author of  "(Ge)Wehrlos - Das Trauma ehemaliger Kindersoldaten")

March 2012: "Atomic Alert"

• on the occasion of the 1st Anniversary of the nuclear catastrophe in Fukushima

guest speaker in Berlin: Tobias Münchmeyer, Greenpeace

guest speaker in Hamburg: film director Thomas Johnson

February 2012: "Granito - How to nail a dictator"

WINNER OF THE CINEMA FOR PEACE AWARD FOR JUSTICE 2012

(only screened in Hamburg)

January 2012: "Letter to Anna"

Guest speaker in Berlin: Hugh Williamson (director of the Europe & Central Asia division at Human Rights Watch)

Guest speaker in Hamburg: Katja Gloger (Journalist, Reporters without Borders Board Member)

December 2011: "Tehran without Permission"

Guest speaker in Berlin: Ayat Najafi (director of Football Undercover) and Nasrin Bassiri (journalist and author)

Guest speaker in Hamburg: Sepideh Farsi (director of Tehran without Permission)

November 2011: "Burma VJ

Guest speaker in Berlin: Jasmin Lorch (guest researcher with German Institute for International und Security Affairs) and Katja Viohl (press referent at Reporters without Borders)

Guest speaker in Hamburg: Wenzel Michalski (head of the German Human Rights Watch office in Berlin) & Dr. Marco Bünte (research fellow with the German Institute of Global and Area Studies)

October 2011: „Inside Job“

Guest speaker in Berlin: Prof. Dr. Joseph Vogl – author of „Das Gespenst des Kapitals“, holds a chair for literature and cultural studies at the Humboldt-University in Berlin

Guest speaker in Hamburg: Prof. Dr. Michael Bräuninger – director of research at the Hamburg World Economic Institute (HWWI) and professor at the Helmut-Schmidt-University in Hamburg

September 2011: „HUNGER – Die vielen Gesichter des Hungers“

Guest speakers in Berlin: Ralf Südhoff, head of the Berlin office of the United Nations World Food Programme, Thilo Hoppe (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, engaged in development policy and head of the political working group „Globalisation“), Christel Happach-Kasan (FDP, fields of competencies: green genetic engineering, global nutrition, renweable ressources, agriculture), David Hachfeld (Oxfam advisor on regional trade policies, access to medecins), Marcus Vetter (director of the film “Hunger” who has also won the Grimme-Award).

Guest speakers in Hamburg: Marcus Vetter, (director of the film “Hunger” who has also won the Grimme-Award), Dr. Ulrich Delius, Africa advisor with the Association for threatened people).

August 2011: “The Devil came on Horseback”

Guest speaker in Berlin: Manal Sefeildin, Human Rights Activist from Darfur

Guest speaker in Hamburg: Dr. Ulrich Delius, Afrika advisor with the Association for threatened people

July 2011: „Blood in the Mobile“

Guest speaker in Berlin: Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, former German Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development gave an introduction to the film , the screening was followed by a discussion with Dr. Ilona-Auer Frege, head of the Ecumenical Network of Central Africa’s Berlin office

Guest speaker in Hamburg: Dr. Dirk Küster, head of the Afrika division at the Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Ressources (BGR).

May 2011: "Restrepo"