ABSTRACT
In March 2013, the latest documentary film on the International Criminal Court (ICC; hereafter, the Court) was launched at the annual human rights documentary film festival, Movies that Matter, in The Hague. Movies that Matter emerged out of the Amnesty International Film Festival and has now developed into one of the leading organizations dedicated to the promotion of human rights documentary films in the world. 1 Over the past few years, Movies that Matter has shown and promoted several documentaries on the ICC, almost as if a human rights film festival in the ‘legal capital of the world’ would be incomplete without a documentary on international criminal law. The documentary, called The Court (dir. Marcus Vetter and Michele Gentile 2013), was widely publicized on the Internet, as well as via the promotional material of the festival itself. The most distinctive aspect of the promotion of the documentary was a picture combining the images of five people: Judge Fulford, presiding judge of the Trial Chamber in the Lubanga case; Luis Moreno Ocampo and Fatou Bensouda, the former and current Chief Prosecutors of the ICC; Ben Ferencz, Chief US Prosecutor in the Einsatzgruppen case at Nuremberg and currently part of the ICC Prosecutor team; and finally Angelina Jolie, Hollywood celebrity and human rights activist. At some point, the pictures of Jolie and Ferencz were removed from the poster, thus leaving only the judge and the two prosecutors to promote the film. The nature of the poster, however, remained basically the same: a tongue in cheek representation of the ICC modeled after a US courtroom drama (see Figure 10.1).
