I've been nurturing this film for than 15 years. What I saw and learnt as I flew over the Earth has changed me forever. Today I want to share what I've sensed throughout theses journeys. This film will have to be both splendid and clever, but also strongly optimistic.For example, it isn't the 50% of forest that has disappeared that's important but the 50% left. What's important is that today we are six billion brainpowers that are to react. Thanks to the quality of its images and thoughts, thi...
Palestinian boy stands next to his family's house, destroyed during Israels offensive, in Jabalya in the northern Gaza Strip
Actor-director Ben Affleck and Sir Mick Jagger have launched a short film for UNHCRs new Gimme Shelter campaign to help raise funds and awareness about the crisis in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and the work of the UN refugee agency.In November, Affleck visited Africa to shoot footage in DRCs strife-torn North Kivu province, where tens of thousands have fled their homes since fighting resumed in August. He also visited Uganda, where some 30,000 people have sought refuge and a...
New initiatives in Holocaust remembrance and education have given us and authentic basis for hope. But we can and must do more if we are to make that hope a reality. We must continue to teach our children the lessons of historu's darkest chapters. That will help them do a better job than their elders in building a world of peaceful coexistence.United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
IN GOD'S NAME is produced in association with acclaimed French filmmakers and brothers Jules and Gedeon Naudet. On the day of the terrorist attacks in September 2001, the two were caught in the collapse of the World Trade Center. Jules was shooting inside when the South Tower fell. "On September 11, we faced death and thought we had lost each other," said Jules Naudet. "This harrowing experience was the first step in a journey that would take us around the world searching for answers to the me...
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