He Film Festival of San Sebastianhas served as a platform for pro-Palestinian protests and the Spanish actor, Javier Bardem He did not leave aside his opinion against Israel.
“I welcome it with great joy but I am not in the mood for celebrations,” said the interpreter who received the award. Donostia Festival Award.
“What has happened in Gaza “It is unacceptable, dehumanizing,” said the award winner during the press conference on the occasion of the tribute.
Bardem said he believes the Israeli government is “the most radical” the country has ever had and that it has committed crimes of war in gaza: “the atrocious and reprehensible attacks of Hamas in October does not justify the massive global punishment that the Palestinian population is suffering,” he continued.
“I think the impunity with which the Israeli government enjoys its actions in Gaza y West Bank has to change,” he added, urging the United States and the United Kingdom in particular to reconsider their “unconditional support” for Benjamin Netanyahupresident of Israel.
On the most famous beach of San Sebastian, La Conchathe protesters wrote messages in favor of Gaza in the sand for everyone on the boardwalk to read over the weekend.
They also took to the streets to protest and display signs on the red carpets against the more than 40 thousand men, women and children who have died in Gaza since the war with Israel began. Israel, According to the Ministry of Health directed by Hamas.
BULLFIGHTING UPROAR
On the other hand, within the Basque festival a controversy was unleashed by the director Albert Serra, who presented Afternoons of Solitudehis first documentary, which follows the bullfighter Andres Roca Rey during a day of bullfighting.
The film generated debate even before it was presented, when the animal rights party PACMA He asked to remove it from the programming, considering that it offers “a romantic and intimate vision of a controversial practice” that can “normalize and perpetuate a tradition that involves violence towards animals.”
Serra approaches “that world with an artist’s gaze,” said José Luis Rebordinos, director of the exhibition, in an interview with the digital media eldiario.es. “It’s not a movie for say whether he supports bullfighting or is against it,” he said.
When questioned about this, Serra He stated in a press conference that his feature film “positions itself” in the sense that it shows “a certain fascination with the subject,” but at the same time “does not renounce be a movie of art that is not at the service of a cause or anything, it is at the service of cinema.”
He said that the debate surrounding works of art seemed “a bit ridiculous” to him, asking whether we should ban paintings with images of war or portraits of people “who we know are bad”.
The world of bullfighting causes controversy in Spain, where the left-wing government recently abolished the National Award of bullfighting.
The San Sebastian Film Festival will conclude on September 28.
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