Call for Green politician to resign amid row over politically charged closing ceremony at film festival
Germany’s minister of state for culture has insisted she was only clapping the Israeli but not the Palestinian half of a filmmaking duo that won one of the major awards at the politically charged closing ceremony for the Berlin film festival.
At Saturday night’s awards event, the Palestinian filmmaker Basel Adra and the Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham jointly took to the stage on Saturday to accept the best documentary prize for their joint film No Other Land, which charts the eradication of Palestinian villages in the West Bank.
Continue reading...
0 Comments