Law promotes peace day in Afghanistan

Jude Law travelled and filmed in treacherous areas of eastern Afghanistan to help promote the United Nation’s annual day of worldwide cease-fire and non-violence.

Accompanied by British director Jeremy Gilley and a film crew, Law interviewed children, government ministers and community leaders for a movie to mark the UN’s Peace Day on September 21.

The United Nations General Assembly adopted Peace Day into its global calendar of events in 2001, following Gilley’s lobbying campaign, which he then turned into a documentary called Peace One Day.

“Afghanistan will be the focal point for the second film, so it seemed important that Jeremy also have a sounding board, a third party perspective on his trip,” Law told reporters today inside a guarded UN compound in Kabul.

“This film is about documenting and seeing how Peace Day can save lives,” Law said.

“This is a country I’d always wanted to visit,” Law said. “It was a situation that I found intriguing. I felt that if it was safe for Jeremy it must be safe for me,” he said.

Law’s trip was conducted in secrecy for security reasons.