{"id":115388,"date":"2024-08-30T17:00:46","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T15:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=115388"},"modified":"2024-08-30T10:08:48","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T08:08:48","slug":"02-00-102","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=115388","title":{"rendered":"Over 300 Filmmakers Condemn Inclusion of Israeli Films in Venice Festival, \u2018Artwashing of Gaza Genocide\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>Over 300 Filmmakers Condemn Inclusion of Israeli Films in Venice Festival, \u2018Artwashing of Gaza Genocide\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h5>\n

Shiryn Ghermezian<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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Actor Sveva Alviti, who hosted the opening ceremony of the 81st Venice Film Festival, and director Alberto Barbera react, in Venice, Italy, on August 27, 2024. Photo: Reuters\/Yara Nardi<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Nearly 350 filmmakers, actors, and other members of the film industry signed an open letter on Wednesday, the same day as the opening of the Venice Film Festival, criticizing the prestigious festival for featuring two Israeli films.<\/span><\/p>\n

At the center of the controversy is Dani Rosenberg\u2019s Hebrew-language film\u00a0\u201cAl Klavim Veanashim\u201d (\u201cOf Dogs and Men\u201d)<\/a>, which is about the aftermath of the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel, and\u00a0\u201cWhy War\u201d<\/a>\u00a0by director and screenwriter Amos Gitai, which will be making its world premiere on Aug. 31 out of competition. The latter film was inspired by a correspondence between Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud about avoiding war and \u201cembarks on a search for an explanation of the savagery of wars that inhabit our world,\u201d according to a synopsis provided by the Venice Film Festival.<\/span><\/p>\n

In the\u00a0open letter<\/a>, published by Artists for Palestine Italia, members of the film industry claim \u201cOf Dogs and Men\u201d and \u201cWhy War\u201d were \u201ccreated by Israeli production companies that are complicit in whitewashing Israel\u2019s oppression against Palestinians.\u201d They claimed it was \u201cunacceptable\u201d for the Venice Film Festival to showcase both films and said they \u201creject complicity with the Israeli regime of apartheid and oppose the artwashing of its Gaza genocide against Palestinians at the 81st Film Festival in Venice.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Of Dogs and Men,\u2019 shot in the midst of Israel\u2019s ongoing attacks on Gaza, whitewashes the genocide,\u201d the letter continued. \u201cLike \u2018Of Dogs and Men,\u2019 \u2018Why War\u2019 was created by complicit Israeli production companies that contribute to apartheid, occupation, and now genocide through their silence or active participation in artwashing. Palestinian society, including the absolute majority of filmmakers, has\u00a0called<\/a>\u00a0for refusing to screen such productions.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Among the signatories were a number of Palestinian filmmakers and actors \u2014 including two-time Oscar-nominated filmmaker Hany Abu-Assad, Rosalind Nashashibi, Raed Andoni, and Saleh Bakri \u2014 as well as more than 80 Italian film industry figures such as screenwriter and David di Donatello nominee Davide Serino; filmmakers Enrico Parenti and Alessandra Ferrini; and actors Niccol\u00f2 Senni, Simona Cavallari, Chiara Baschetti, and Paola Michelini. Others who signed the open letter included Tony Award nominee Kathleen Chalfant, C\u00e9sar-winning actor Nahuel P\u00e9rez Biscayart, composer Nitin Sawhney, and Israeli filmmakers Oreet Ashery and Eyal Sivan.<\/span><\/p>\n

The film industry figures also took issue with the Venice Film Festival for staying silent \u201cabout Israel\u2019s atrocities against the Palestinian people.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis silence outrages us deeply,\u201d they explained, before urging film festival organizers to take \u201ceffective and ethical measures to hold apartheid Israel to account for its crimes and system of colonial oppression against Palestinians.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe film festival should not program productions complicit in apartheid crimes, ethnic cleansing, and genocide, regardless who perpetrates them, and should refrain from doing so in the future,\u201d the open letter stated in conclusion. \u201cArtwashing Israel\u2019s genocide in Gaza on the international cultural stage, including film festivals, is profoundly immoral.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Venice Film Festival last year hosted the\u00a0world premiere<\/a>\u00a0of \u201cTatami,\u201d the first feature film co-directed by an Israeli and an Iranian filmmaker, as well as the\u00a0world premiere<\/a>\u00a0of \u201cLetters from Drancy,\u201d a virtual reality film about the life of a Holocaust survivor.<\/span><\/p>\n

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