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Saba Yemen
13-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Saba Yemen
World artists condemn silence at genocide in Gaza
Paris - Saba: International artists condemned the silence regarding the genocide committed by the Israeli occupation forces in the Gaza Strip, calling on the film industry to take action to convey the suffering of the victims in an open letter on the eve of the Cannes Film Festival. According to Agence France-Presse, "Hours before the curtain rose on the Cannes Film Festival, 380 leading filmmakers issued an open letter published in Libération on Tuesday condemning the international silence regarding what they described as genocide in Gaza. They cited the killing of photographer Fatima Hassouna and expressed their disappointment with the Academy's response to the attack targeting Palestinian director Hamdan Bilal." The letter began, "We, cultural artists and actors, cannot remain silent while genocide is taking place in Gaza." Prominent directors and actors, including Pedro Almodóvar, Susan Sarandon, Richard Gere, Ruben Östlund, David Cronenberg, and Javier Bardem, signed the letter, bringing the total number of signatures to approximately 380 from various countries. The statement, which coincided with the opening of the Cannes Film Festival, recalled photojournalist Fatima Hassouna, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in mid-April. It explained that ten of her relatives, including her pregnant sister, were killed in the same raid. Hassouna is the star of a documentary being screened as part of the festival's program. The signatories also expressed concern about the lack of institutional support following the attack on Palestinian director Hamdan Bilal by settlers in late March, days after he won the Oscar for Best Documentary for No Other Land. They criticized the Academy's passivity, which they described as shameful. The signatories called for concrete action for all those who die in the face of indifference, emphasizing that cinema must carry their messages to the world. Whatsapp Telegram Email Print
LBCI
25-03-2025
- Entertainment
- LBCI
Israeli army arrests Oscar-winning Palestinian filmmaker
The Israeli army arrested Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Bilal in the occupied West Bank on Monday, weeks after ''No Other Land,'' the documentary he co-directed, won an Academy Award, according to his Israeli co-director Yuval Abraham. In a post on X, Abraham said that a group of Israeli settlers attacked Bilal's home, leaving him wounded and bleeding. When an ambulance arrived to treat him, Israeli soldiers entered the vehicle and arrested him. The incident took place in the village of Susiya, in the southern West Bank, which Israel has occupied since 1967, according to the Center for Jewish Nonviolence, an anti-settlement NGO. Members of the organization said they were present at the scene and documented the arrest on video.
Egypt Independent
04-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Egypt Independent
Palestinian film ‘No Other Land' wins Oscar 2025
The Palestinian film 'No Other Land' (2024) has won this year's best documentary feature Oscar on Monday. 'No Other Land' is a Palestinian documentary film co-produced by Palestine and Norway, and directed by Basil Adra, Hamdan Bilal, Yuval Ibrahim, and Rachel Szor activists in support of the Palestinian cause. The film was selected to be screened for the first time in the Panorama section of the 74th Berlin International Film Festival in February 2024, where it won two awards. With a runtime of 95 minutes, the film discusses how Palestinian citizens in the West Bank have been displaced by Israel's occupation, and the attacks the Masafer Yatta area was subjected to from 2019 to 2023.
