A large group of mostly Italian film industry professionals, including auteurs Marco Bellocchio, Matteo Garrone and Alice Rohrwacher, has launched an appeal for the Venice Film Festival to take a more active pro-Palestinian stance.
The group, gathered under the banner of V4P (Venice4Palestine), on Saturday published an open letter urging the fest’s parent organization, the Venice Biennale and its independent parallel sections Giornate degli Autori (Venice Days) and the International Critics’ Week, “to be more courageous and clear in condemning the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the ethnic cleansing across Palestine carried out by the Israeli government and army.” The Venice Film Festival kicks off Tuesday.
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