US EditionHollywood stars condemn Gaza 'genocide' on eve of Cannes Film Festival
- At the Cannes Film Festival in May 2024, stars including Cate Blanchett publicly condemned the Gaza conflict triggered by October 7 attacks.
- The event followed Hamas's October 7, 2023 assault on southern Israel, which killed 1,218 people mainly civilians, and the subsequent Israeli military retaliation.
- The festival featured documentaries such as Sepideh Farsi's film about Gazan photojournalist Fatima Hassouna, who was killed in an Israeli air strike on April 16, 2024.
- The Gaza health ministry reports at least 52,787 deaths during the Israeli offensive, mostly civilians, while groups accuse Israel of massacres amid international condemnation.
- The festival's focus on Gaza highlights the ongoing humanitarian crisis, with celebrities and filmmakers drawing attention to war impacts and calls for political solutions.
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370 artists sign open letter on Gaza ‘passivity’ at Cannes
The missive, which protests "indifference" in the industry to the harsh reality in the Strip, makes no reference to the Israeli hostages held there.The post 370 artists sign open letter on Gaza ‘passivity’ at Cannes appeared first on JNS.org.
Several film personalities have joined the signatories of an open letter condemning the film industry's silence on Gaza. They called the industry a "hotbed of socially engaged works" and called on it to "be present in protecting oppressed voices."
Yorgos Lanthimos, Costa-Gavras Join Gaza Protest at Cannes Festival
Yorgos Lanthimos, along with others in the film industry, decried the death of Gaza photojournalist Fatima Hassouna. Credit: Raph_PH. CC BY 2.0/Wikimedia Commons/Raph_PH Over 350 film figures, including Greek directors Yorgos Lanthimos and Costa-Gavras, denounced “genocide” in Gaza in an open letter on Monday ahead of the Cannes Festival. “We cannot stay silent,” said the letter, backed by pro-Palestinian groups. “We cannot remain silent while g…
Hundreds of directors, writers, actors denounce Israeli genocide in Gaza and the film industry’s “silence,” “indifference” and “passivity”
The letter begins by calling attention to the fate of 25-year-old Fatma Hassoun, a Palestinian freelance photojournalist, murdered in an Israeli air strike on April 16.
'Let us rise up!' Hundreds of furious movie A-listers speak out at Cannes
On Monday, in the lead-up to the annual Cannes Film Festival in France, nearly 400 international actors, directors, and producers released an open letter condemning Israel's genocide in the Gaza Strip.The letter—published by French newspaper Libération and U.S. magazine Variety—begins with Fatma Hassona a 25-year-old Palestinian freelance photojournalist killed in an Israeli military strike on April 16, 2025, just a day after it was announced th…
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