Hollywood actors Meg Ryan and Dustin Hoffman backed out of attending this year’s annual Jerusalem Film Festival, which is set to kick off this coming Thursday, following the international outcry over Israel’s attack on a Turkish-led flotilla that attempted to break the Gaza blockade on May 31, The Jerusalem Post learned Monday.
According to Cinematheque associate director Yigal Molad Hayo, while neither gave the political climate as a direct reason for canceling their participation in the festival, “it became quite clear that this was the reason,” he said. More...
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One of the films to be screened there sounds really amazing. It's a full-length documentary about a baby from Gaza who needs a major operation in a hospital in Israel, and the mother tells the left-wing Israeli reporter who produced the film that she would love nothing more than for her beloved boy to grow up to become a shahid. There's a chilling excerpt of their conversation in the second half of an article on Jerusalem Dispatch:
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