Richard Gere presents “Coca” with International Human Rights Movie Award in Berlin
09.02.2007
Zainap Gaschaieva, the protagonist in Eric Bergkraut’s film “Coca – The Dove From Chechnya – Europe In Denial Of A War” (Production: Doc Productions, Zurich), a film which has found great resonance and acknowledgement since its premiere at the International Forum of New Cinema in Berlin two years ago, will be honored with the International Human Rights Movie Award at the 6th Gala of “Cinema for Peace” in Berlin on February 12, 2007. Richard Gere will present the award to Zainap Gaschaieva and Swiss director Eric Bergkraut at the city’s “Konzerthaus” (concert hall). Additional honorary hosts at the peace gala benefiting children in Darfur and Tibetan refugees, will be Sharon Stone, Catherine Deneuve, and Christopher Lee. The organizers have invited filmmakers from around the world to create a forum for peace and humanity.
The documentary film “Coca”, which also received the Rudolf Vrba Prize in Prague in 2006, will be shown ahead of the “Cinema for Peace” gala on February 2 in Berlin, with the director and protagonist in attendance. For Zainap Gaschaieva, the International Human Rights Movie Award is the second acknowledgement for her engagement against abduction, torture, and murder. She was honored with the Lew-Kopelew-Prize for Peace and Human Rights in 2005.
Since its premiere in Berlin in 2005, “Coca” participated at over 20 international film festivals, among them at the renowned Tribeca Film Festival in New York, and it was shown in Amsterdam, Goteborg, Montreal, Talinn, Teheran, and Warsaw. It is also currently screened in movie theatres in France and Germany.
Zurich, February 9, 2007
Since its premiere in Berlin in 2005, “Coca” participated at over 20 international film festivals, among them at the renowned Tribeca Film Festival in New York, and it was shown in Amsterdam, Goteborg, Montreal, Talinn, Teheran, and Warsaw. It is also currently screened in movie theatres in France and Germany.
Zurich, February 9, 2007