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<\/a>Israel\u2019s Oscar Submission \u2018Tell Me Everything\u2019 Dropped From Queer Film Festival Following Boycott Threats<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\nShiryn Ghermezian<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n A queer film festival in Geneva, Switzerland, removed an Israeli film from its lineup this week after receiving backlash and boycott threats from local pro-Palestinian groups.<\/span><\/p>\n Everybody\u2019s Perfect, which describes itself as a \u201cfestival of queer cinema,\u201d has canceled two screenings<\/a> of Moshe Rosenthal\u2019s \u201cTell Me Everything.\u201d The film is about a father-son relationship and follows 12-year-old Boaz, who discovers a shocking secret about his father in the late 1980s in the US, at the height of the HIV epidemic.<\/span><\/p>\n The movie premiered at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year and in September set a record for the most nominations \u2014 16 \u2013 at Israel\u2019s Ophir Awards, which is the country\u2019s equivalent to the Academy Awards. \u201cTell Me Everything\u201d won Best Picture at the Ophir Awards, which automatically made it Israel\u2019s submission for the best international feature film category at the 99th Academy Awards. Rosenthal said the film was heavily inspired by his own childhood.<\/span><\/p>\n Everybody\u2019s Perfect will run from Oct. 9-18 and is being supported in part by the city of Geneva. Charlotte Spector, head of communications for the event, told Variety<\/em> that organizers decided to cancel the two screenings of \u201cTell Me Everything\u201d after another Geneva-based film festival, Palestine Filmer C\u2019est Exister, reached out expressing their opposition to the film.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThey started writing messages like \u2018We\u2019re going to boycott your festival\u2019 \u2014 boycott, boycott, just boycott,\u201d Spector told the publication. \u201cWhen people mention boycotting a festival that is a very big threat \u2026 This was a three-day decision with lots and lots of heartache. It was difficult.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201c[\u2018Tell Me Everything\u2019] is a beautiful film about the \u201980s and AIDS\/HIV,\u201d Spector added. \u201cThere\u2019s nothing that is remotely close to what is going on currently and what has been going on [in Israel\/Gaza].\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Festival organizers apologized when they told the filmmakers about the cancellation and explained the decision was made \u201cfor the well-being of the festival audience and to ensure that the other films in the selection could be properly showcased,\u201d as cited by Variety.<\/em> Other local groups that pressured Everybody\u2019s Perfect to remove Rosenthal\u2019s film from its lineup included BDS Geneva, Student Coordination for Palestine at the University of Geneva, Collectif Radical d\u2019Action Queer (CRAQ), and MARAD, according to an Instagram post.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n In a statement to the Swiss newspaper Le Courrier<\/em>, the festival\u2019s artistic director Sylvie Cachin said, \u201cThe cancelation isn\u2019t related to the film itself, but to the desire to avoid controversy just days before the festival\u2019s opening.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cTell Me Everything\u201d is Rosenthal\u2019s second feature film. His directorial debut, \u201cKaraoke,\u201d premiered at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival.<\/span><\/p>\n Everybody\u2019s Perfect did not respond to The Algemeiner<\/em>\u2018s request for comment.<\/span><\/p>\n Zawarto\u015b\u0107 publikowanych artyku\u0142\u00f3w i materia\u0142\u00f3w nie reprezentuje pogl\u0105d\u00f3w ani opinii Reunion’68,<\/em> Israel\u2019s Oscar Submission \u2018Tell Me Everything\u2019 Dropped From Queer Film Festival Following Boycott Threats Shiryn Ghermezian A promotional photo for Moshe Rosenthal\u2019s \u201cTell Me Everything.\u201d Photo: \u201cEverybody\u2019s Perfect.\u201d A queer film festival in Geneva, Switzerland, removed an Israeli film from its lineup this week after receiving backlash and boycott threats from local pro-Palestinian groups. 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A promotional photo for Moshe Rosenthal\u2019s \u201cTell Me Everything.\u201d Photo: \u201cEverybody\u2019s Perfect.\u201d<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
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