At this year’s Berlin Film Festival, known as the Berlinale, one after another, Arab prizewinners spoke not about films but about Gaza and Israel’s “genocide.” I discussed this yesterday here. Lebanese director Marie-Rose Osta, for example, received an award for her short film Someday a Child, about an 11-year-old boy living with his uncle in […]
At Berlin Film Festival, Antisemitism Was in the Air
The awards ceremony at the Berlin Film Festival on February 20 was less about film and more about denouncing Israel for its “genocide” in Gaza. An unconscionable number of Arab filmmakers won prizes, and they were all determined, as part of their acceptance speeches, to denounce the Jewish state for a crime it did not […]