Angelina Jolie Says “I Feel A Part Of The Failure Of The System” After Pushing For Human Rights, However, World Cinema Can Create Empathy – TIFF
deadline.comIn receiving the TIFF Tribute Award in Impact Media tonight, Oscar and Tony winner Angelina Jolie exclaimed that “When I am asked how I feel about the state of the world today, I admit I feel sick.” She added, “After pushing for basic human rights for all people, only to see the reality worsen for so many, I feel a part of the failure of the system.” However, Jolie always seeks to make a difference in showing the resilience of humanity. “A lot of Jolie’s films are about the long impact of war,” said TIFF CEO Cameron Bailey tonight at the world premiere of her sixth directorial Without Blood.
Her blockbuster 2014 holiday movie, Unbroken followed Olympian Louis Zamperini turned WWII pilot, who spends a harrowing 47 days in a raft with two fellow crewmen before he’s caught by the Japanese navy and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp.
In the 2017 Netflix documentary, First They Killed My Father, she followed Cambodian author and human rights activist Loung Ung who recounts the horrors she suffered as a child under the rule of the deadly Khmer Rouge.
Without Blood, made outside the Hollywood system by Fremantle Italia and The Apartment, is based on the Alessandro Baricco novel which follows a grown woman who comes face to face with her father’s murderer, decades after he spared her own life.
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