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Amos Gitai Dismisses Boycott Calls For Venice Film ‘Why War’; Says Both Hamas & Israel’s Far-Right Government Need To Go: “This Cannot Go On”
Director said the people calling for the boycott had not seen the film and that the production had not received a shekel of Israeli state money.
Israeli director Amos Gitai has batted back calls for a boycott of his Venice work Why War and said both sides of the Israel – Palestine conflict need to clean out their current leaderships for peace to prevail. He described the film – featuring Irène Jacob, Mathieu Amalric, Micha Lescot, Jérôme Kircher, Yaël Abecassis, Keren Morr in the cast – as a poetic associative voyage that came together across shoots in Vienna, Tel Aviv, Berlin and Paris. A group of some 80 Italian cultural figures posted a letter on the eve of Venice condemning the inclusion of Why War – alongside that of another Israeli film Of Gods and Men – in the festival’s line-up, saying the works were made by production companies “that contribute to apartheid, occupation and now genocide.”
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