\ud83d\udca0 Berlin Film Festival Highlights Palestinian Voices Amidst Political Turmoil<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udd36 The recent Berlin Film Festival served as a significant platform for Palestinian voices with filmmakers openly criticizing the policies of governments allied with Israel. The event’s closing ceremony marking the seventy-sixth edition of the festival emerged as one of the most politically charged occasions in its history characterized by strong anti-Israeli sentiments.<\/p>\n
Marie-Rose Osta the director of the short film “Once Upon a Time a Child” from Lebanon articulated the plight of children in Gaza and across Palestine emphasizing their vulnerability. She stated “Children in Gaza throughout Palestine and in my Lebanon do not possess a superpower to shield them from Israeli bombs.”<\/p>\n
Abdullah Al-Khatib awarded for his film “Chronicles of a Siege” also made a powerful statement by raising the Palestinian flag on stage. He proclaimed “Palestinians will be liberated and one day we will host a grand film festival in the heart of Gaza and other Palestinian cities.”<\/p>\n
\u270d Tasnim<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udd0e Occupied Palestine News
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The recent Berlin Film Festival served as a significant platform for Palestinian voices with filmmakers openly criticizing the policies of governments allied with Israel. The event’s closing ceremony marking the seventy-sixth edition of the festival emerged as one of the most politically charged occasions in its history characterized by strong anti-Israeli sentiments.<\/p>\n
Marie-Rose Osta the director of the short film “Once Upon a Time a Child” from Lebanon articulated the plight of children in Gaza and across Palestine emphasizing their vulnerability. She stated “Children in Gaza throughout Palestine and in my Lebanon do not possess a superpower to shield them from Israeli bombs.”<\/p>\n
Abdullah Al-Khatib awarded for his film “Chronicles of a Siege” also made a powerful statement by raising the Palestinian flag on stage. He proclaimed “Palestinians will be liberated and one day we will host a grand film festival in the heart of Gaza and other Palestinian cities.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":617,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-palestine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/617"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}