NEW JOLIE FILM MAKE PEOPLE UNCOMFORTABLE

CHEERS.....Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt at the Cinema for Peace Gala in Berlin.

ANGELINA Jolie said she hopes her directorial debut In the Land of Blood and Honey will provoke a wider discussion about rape, something that the International Criminal Court's prosecutor said could be extremely valuable in helping bring perpetrators to justice.

Jolie, who received a Cinema for Peace award for her film and the group's "honorary award for opposing war and genocide" for the movie focusing on the war in Bosnia, said she wants viewers to be 'uncomfortable' when they see the film.

Jolie's writing-directing debut hurls two lovers, a Bosnian Muslim woman and a Bosnian-Serb man, from their tender relationship before the war into the horrors of prison camps where rapes occurred.

"I believe these strong issues deserve to be presented in a very strong direct light," Jolie, who was in Berlin for the Berlin International Film Festival, told a small group of reporters.

"It's a strange thing to say as a director and a filmmaker, but I want people to be very uncomfortable when they watch it, and they should be upset and they should want some intervention, and they should want it to stop and they should be angry."

The film has already provoked the ire, but of a different kind, of the sole film distributor in the Serb-run part of Bosnia, Vladimir Ljevak, who questioned its portrayal of the Serb side of the conflict and said he would not be screening it there. Still, a small group of Muslim Bosniaks who have returned to their homes in the Serb part of the country say they instead plan to organize private showings.

Jolie appeared in good spirits as she was about to receive the awards for her film. "It's a very important night for us," the actress said. Jolie was joined on the carpet by partner Brad Pitt, who said he was proud of her that evening, "and every night."

Jolie said that she was not sure whether she would follow "In the Land of Blood and Honey" with such a serious film again, but did say she has already written a script focusing on the conflict in Afghanistan, a country she said she had visited several times.

For now, however, it's staying under wraps, even from her partner, Pitt.

"I did write something on Afghanistan, nobody's seen it yet, Brad hasn't seen it, it's hidden, so I don't know how very good it is, but it's been a pleasure to write," she said. (AP)