This is an important film. It is about the corruption at the International Criminal Court (ICC). As I have said, I even met with people there who wanted to use my case against the Clinton Administration, but because the US is not a member, they had no jurisdiction. Well, neither is Russia nor China a member but the Neocons have managed to get the ICC to indict Putin all to create World War III. This is a very important film that I highly recommend.
The director's page is interesting.
To help people understand what is at stake, Ocampo stresses that films are necessary to reach global audiences. A 1961 film, “The Nuremberg Verdict,” promoted the concept of the “Holocaust”; new generations are learning the difference between democracy and dictatorship through the film “Argentina 1985,” which shows how the prosecution of the military junta ended the commission of massive atrocities. In the course of the film, which depicts the court over a period of 15 years from the perspective of the chief prosecutor, a complex legal process is given a face. Is there a way out of the vicious cycle of violence that an International Criminal Court could provide if it were recognized by all the world’s states and every head of state that waged a war of aggression was held accountable? A cab driver picking Ocampo up from the airport suddenly asks the questions that many people are asking and speaks aloud what seems to be preventing widespread acceptance of the global court at this time.
In the genre of the judicial thriller, award-winning directors Marcus Vetter and Michele Gentile, who have been filming at the ICC since 2009, tell how the first internationally legitimized criminal court investigates war criminals from the perspective of the prosecution. Among them are cases such as the suppression of the Arab Spring in Libya, possible war crimes in the Gaza war and the recruitment of child soldiers in the Congo. Actress Angelina Jolie and one of the former chief prosecutors at the Nuremberg trials, Ben Ferencz, are traveling to The Hague specifically for the first trial of Congolese militia leader, Thomas Lubanga Dyilo. They want to support this young court and its acceptance in public opinion. Angelina has directed her first feature film about war crimes committed in former Yugoslavia and Ben Ferencz, who celebrated his 102nd birthday this year, has spent his life fighting for the world community to classify wars of aggression as war crimes. In his view, all wars result in atrocities against civilians, which is inevitable in today’s hybrid warfare. With the start of Russia’s war of aggression in February 2022, the ICC is suddenly riding high. The Ukraine conflict is boosting support for the ICC, but also for war. Peaceful countries like Germany and Sweden are suddenly planning for a permanent state of war.
If states are serious about ending impunity for crimes of aggression, the rules set out in the Rome Statute must be changed, and the court has also to be recognized by powerful states such as the United States, China, India and Russia. Instead of supporting war, Ocampo calls on political leaders to rethink the way we deal with conflict and replace war with a globally recognized justice system that seeks to avoid double standards.
