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Filmmakers Denounce Industry ‘Silence’ About the Killing of Cannes Film Subject
Ralph Fiennes and Yorgos Lanthimos were among over 350 artists evoking cinema’s “duty” to tell stories like Fatma Hassona’s.
The letter, released on May 12 and signed by industry names like Yorgos Lanthimos, Pedro Almodóvar, Alfonso Cuarón, Xavier Dolan, Hannah Einbinder, Cynthia Nixon, David Cronenberg, and Ralph Fiennes, highlighted filmmakers’ responsibility not to turn away from stories like Hassona’s. Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk, which captures daily life in Palestine while under siege, had already been selected for Cannes in the L’ACID (Association du Cinéma Indépendant pour sa Diffusion) section of the festival when the director learned of Hasson’s death. The open letter also cites the “lack of support” from the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences for Hamdan Ballal, a co-director of No Other Land, after he was injured in a brutal attack in the West Bank just days after winning the Oscar for Best Documentary.
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