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Berlinale Head Voices Support For ‘No Other Land’ Filmmakers After Berlin City Portal Says Film Contains “Antisemitic Tendencies”: “That Discourse Creates Danger For All Of Them”


Berlinale Head Voices Support For ‘No Other Land’ Filmmakers After Berlin City Portal Brands Film ‘Anti-Semitic’

The festival posted the message from Tuttle on its Instagram account as the film begins its theatrical release in Germany, which has reignited local debate around whether the filmmakers and their work are antisemitic. Israeli/Palestinian directing collective Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor have crafted a frank, incisive, powerful film which is deservedly gaining acclaim and picking up many awards and nominations around the world,” Tuttle was quoted as saying in the statement. Abraham flagged the description in a post on X saying: “It pains me to see how, after murdering most of my family in the holocaust, you empty the word antisemitism of meaning to silence critics of Israel’s occupation in the West Bank (the topic of our film) and legitimize violence against Palestinians.

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