Subject: Trailer of the Week: Syria at the Oscars
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Syria at the Oscars

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Los Angeles / Aleppo - Marcel Mettelsiefen risked his life to document the victims of Syrian dictator Assad and was one of two nominated filmmakers at the Oscars with a film on Syria. "Watani: My Homeland" shows the journey of a refugee family that flees their torn Aleppo house to seek new horizons in a traditional German town, continuing Mettelsiefen’s line of work started in 2014 with "Syria: Children on the Frontline", winner of the Cinema for Peace Award, whose supporter Hubertus Hoffman financed the new and Oscar-nominated film.

The 89^th Academy Awards were not indifferent to the current circumstances of international politics and honored Orlando von Einsiedel’s "The White Helmets" which depicts the efforts of Syrian volunteers to save lives from within the rubble. Einsiedel had won in 2015 DiCaprios & Gorbachevs "Green Oscar" at Cinema for Peace for "Virunga".

"The White Helmets" was also nominated for the Cinema for Peace Award for the Most Valuable Documentary of the Year - and won together with Tickling Giants, Disturbing the Peace, Keep Quiet, Peshmerga and When Gods Sleep.

The Most Valuable Documentaries 2017:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdVg2WXSNMg&utm_source=Trailer+of+the+Week&utm_campaign=0f80f33cd3-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_20&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_7aebcea895-0f80f33cd3-91656681 Keep Quiet
Directors: Sam Blair and Joseph Martin
Producers: Alex Holder, Danielle Clark, Nicole Stott

This almost too far-fetched to be ficti - onal story documents far-right Job - bik‘s politician‘s astonishing transformation after he finds out he is Jewish. Csanád Szegedi was a former member of the Hungarian radical nationalist party Jobbik, who regularly espoused anti-Semitic rhetoric. Then came a revelation which transformed his life: Szegedi‘s maternal grandparents were revealed to be Jewish and his beloved grandmother an Auschwitz survivor who had hidden her faith fearing further persecution. The film depicts Szegedi‘s three year journey as he is guided by Rabbi Boruch Oberlander to embrace his new - found religion, forced to confront the painful truths of his family‘s past, his own wrong doing and the turbulent his - tory of his country. The shots from Csanad”s Bar-Mitzvah may be entertaining, but is this astonishing transformation a process of genuine reparation and spiritual awakening, or is he simply a desperate man with nowhere else to turn? The film premiered at
the Tribeca Film Festival in the World Documentary Competition.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A95PDQWr4xs&t=2sDisturbing&utm_source=Trailer+of+the+Week&utm_campaign=0f80f33cd3-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_20&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_7aebcea895-0f80f33cd3-91656681 the Peace
Director: Stephen Apko, Andrew Young
Producers: Stephen Apkon

Is a story of the human potential unleashed when we stop participating in a story that no longer serves us and, with the power of our convictions, take action to create new possibilities. DISTURBING THE PEACE follows former enemy com - batants - Israeli soldiers from elite units and Palestinian fighters, many of whom served years in prison - who have joined together to challenge the status quo and say „enough.“ The film reveals their transformational journeys from soldiers committed to armed battle to nonviolent peace activists, leading to the creation of Combatants for Peace. While based in the Middle East, DISTURBING THE PEACE evokes universal themes relevant to us all and inspires us to become active participants in the creation of our world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVwUrbGcxZ4Tickling&utm_source=Trailer+of+the+Week&utm_campaign=0f80f33cd3-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_20&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_7aebcea895-0f80f33cd3-91656681 Giants
“Are you brave enough to tell a joke?”
Director: Sara Taksler
Producers: Maziar Bahari, Mo - nica Hampton, Frederic Rose, Sara Taksler

In the midst of the Egyptian Arab Spring, Bassem Youssef makes a decision that’s every mother’s worst nightmare… He leaves his job as a heart surgeon to become a full-time comedian. Dubbed, “The Egypti - an Jon Stewart,” Bassem runs the satirical show, Al Bernameg. The weekly program quickly becomes the most viewed television program in the Middle East, with 30 million viewers per episode. The Daily Show with Jon Stewart averaged two million viewers. In a country where freedom of speech is not a settled law, Bassem’s show becomes as controversial as it is popular. He and his staff must endure physical threats, protests, and legal action, all because of jokes. As Bassem attempts to remain on the air, keep his staff safe, and not get arrested, he continues to let those in power know they’re being held accountable. Despite increasing danger, the team at Al Bernameg employ comedy, not violence, to comment on hypocrisy in media, politics, and religion.

https://vimeo.com/44071135Peshmerga?utm_source=Trailer+of+the+Week&utm_campaign=0f80f33cd3-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_20&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_7aebcea895-0f80f33cd3-91656681
Director: Bernard-Henri Lévy
Producer: François Margolin

A stunning account of a local force most capable of resisting Da’esh fundamentalists. From July to December 2015, Bernard-Henri Lévy and a team of cameramen travelled the 1000 kilome - tres of the frontline that separates Iraqi Kurdistan from Daesh‘s troupes. From this journey, comes a logbook in images that offers a privileged view of a war that is unfinished but whose stakes are of global importance. In close quarters with the Peshmergas, these Kurdish fighters who show unfailing determination in their fight against obscurantism and jihadi fundamentalism, the film takes us from the heights of Mosul to the heart of the Sinjar Mountains passing on the way via the last Christian monasteries threatened with destruction. Many remarkable characters make their mark on this account, men and women of an ilk one rarely encounter. The movie premiered on special late entry screening in Cannes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wj4ncIEDxwThe&utm_source=Trailer+of+the+Week&utm_campaign=0f80f33cd3-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_20&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_7aebcea895-0f80f33cd3-91656681 White Helmets.
Director: Orlando von Einsiedel
Producer: Joanna Natasegara

Netflix short documentary from the people behind „Virunga” depicts commitment of White Helmets - a group of indomitable first responders risk their lives to rescue victims from the rubble. White Helmets are a perfect example of how a group of dedicated volunteers can make a tangible change – despite working in extremely dangerous conditions, they have managed to save over 50,000 people. The movie managed to draw public’s attention to the first responders’ effort –the group received significant support from the international community, there is now also a feature movie on White Helmets in development. The movie won for Best Documentary (Short Subject) at the 89th Academy Awards.

When Gods Sleep
Director: Till Schauder
Producers: Till Schauder & Sara Nodjoumi

When God Sleeps depicts the journey of Iranian mu - sician Shahin Najaf, who was forced into hiding after hardline clerics issued a fatwa for his death, incen - sed by a rap song that focused on the oppression of women and human rights abuses. As a youngster, Najaf was talented in recitation of the Koran. Now each of his concerts puts his life at risk. Worldwide press reports have described Najaf as the „Salman Rushdie of music, “though Rushdie could write while in hiding and Najaf, as a musician, needs to perform. When God Sleeps tells one man‘s story while delving into issues of freedom of speech and how one man decides to persevere and live his life, despite the fatwa.
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