CHERAN TWICE HONORED AT BERLIN'S CINEMA FOR PEACE GALA

摘要

David Romero,Domingo Bartolo,and Josue Velazquez of the Cheran Indigenous Community were introduced by Natalie Portman and later mingled with award-winning actors Charlize Theron,Nastassja Kinski,and Christopher Lee;activists Pussy Riot(Nadezhda Tolokonnikova,Maria Alekhina,and Pyotr Verzilov)and Kweku Mandela(grandson of Nelson Mandela);Iranian judge and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Shirin Ebadi;the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague,Fatou Bensouda;movie producer Gaston Pavlovich,industrialists Hermann Biihlbecker and Kai Rixrath,among others.Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev gave a video message for the event,underlining the theme of"making the impossible,possible."Several members of the pine-chemicals and related industries of several countries were also in attendance at the gala in both years that Cheran was recognized.