The fact that a Jewish director of a highly acclaimed film about the Holocaust, made in collaboration with the Auschwitz Museum, is being accused of *antisemitism* by right wingers simply because he decried the violence done to Palestinian civilians in his name says so much
No Other Land premiered in Berlin this week — a major and utterly enraging documentary about the Israeli military’s dehumanizing occupation of a Palestinian community in the West Bank mountains. This needs distribution ASAP.
A right-wing Israeli mob came to my family’s home yesterday to search for me, threatening close family members who fled to another town in the middle of the night. I am still getting death threats and had to cancel my flight home. This happened after Israeli media and German politicians absurdly labeled my Berlinale award speech - where I called for equality between Israelis and Palestinians, a ceasefire and an end to apartheid - as ‘antisemitic’. The appalling misuse of this word by Germans, not only to silence Palestinian critics of Israel, but also to silence Israelis like me who support a ceasefire that will end the killing in Gaza and allow the release of the Israeli hostages - empties the word antisemitism of meaning and thus endangers Jews all over the world. As my grandmother was born in a concentration camp in Libya and most of my grandfather’s family was murdered by Germans in the holocaust, I find it particularly outraging that German politicians in 2024 have the audacity to weaponize this term against me in a way that endangered my family. But above all else, this behavior puts Palestinian co-director Basel Adra’s life in danger, who lives under a military occupation surrounded by violent settlements in Masafer Yatta. He is in far greater danger than I am. I’m happy our award winning film, No Other Land, is sparking an important international debate on this issue - and I hope that millions of people watch it when it comes out this year. Sparking a conversation is why we made it. You can have harsh criticism of what me and Basel said on stage without demonizing us. If this is what you’re doing with your guilt for the holocaust - I don’t want your guilt.
Our film “No Other Land” on occupied Masafer Yatta’s brutal expulsion won best documentary in Berlinale. Israel’s channel 11 aired this 30 second segment from my speech, insanely called it “anti semitic” - and I’ve been receiving death threats since. I stand behind every word.
“I’m sorry your Amazon packages are delayed, but you know, there’s a genocide…”
@MyriamFrancoisC with a sublime reply when preposterously asked if the Houthis should have been bombed sooner.
This is a must watch.
»Umetnost se mora dotikati tudi ran, ki najbolj bolijo«
Filmski režiser Damjan Kozole o svojem novem filmu Pero, ki je poklon pokojnemu igralcu Petru Musevskemu, pa tudi o morbidnem obdobju, svojem preboju mimo ustaljenih poti in upih slovenskega filma.
https://t.co/chxabJ9u7k
»Vse, kar sem posnel, se mi je potem zgodilo v resničnem življenju.«
- Peter Musevski (1965 – 2020)
V sredo 12. julija ob 21ih premierno na Letnem kinu Minoriti dokumentarec Pero in pogovor z @damjankozole @urssa_m in Matjažem Ivanišinom. @Directors_SI
https://t.co/FLB9BXISuw
Za prolog Letnega kina Minoriti 2023 vam v sodelovanju z @Directors_SI in @DokuDoc2014 prinašamo ganljiv portret Petra Musevskega pod režijsko taktirko @damjankozole ... sledi pogovor s slednjim, @urssa_m in Matjažem Ivanišinom.
Več na: https://t.co/4bIxY8h3yt
#Liffe2022 je končan. Hvala vsem in se vidimo naslednje leto.
Danes pa še projekciji treh zmagovalnih filmov v @cankarjevdom:
ob 17:00 Blizu (Close)
ob 19:15 Varen kraj (Sigurno mjesto) + kratki film Sierra.
Anti-war performance on the steps of the St. Petersburg City Duma building. In the video, the girl repeats "Heart bleeds". The "dangerous criminal" has already been detained by Russian police.
#StandWithUkraine
Video: Fontanka
Ukrainian girl after Russian shelling on her schools number 21 in Chernigiv. Just to remind that delibarate attack to civilian objects is a war crime.
#StandWithUkraine️