The National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) has canceled an Israeli film festival in the country following protests by people from various walks of life including actors, civil society activists and academics in India.
Organized by the National Film Development Corporation, the festival was scheduled to be held at the National Museum of Indian Cinema (NMIC) in Mumbai on Wednesday and Thursday but had to be canceled due to protests.
Former member of the lower house of the Indian Parliament i.e. the Lok Sabha and leader of the Communist Party of India, Shubhshani Ali said in a message on X that ‘We have confirmed the news that (NMIC) on August 21 and 22. has canceled the Israel Film Festival to be held in Mumbai.
He said that more than 1,000 people opposed the organization of such a fair through a signature campaign.
A petition calling for the cancellation of screenings of Israeli films says the festival is being held ‘shamefully’ at a time when the world is witnessing Israeli war crimes and genocide in Gaza and throughout Palestine. There is a witness.
Among the personalities who opposed the screening of Israeli films are Bollywood industry big name Naseeruddin Shah, documentary filmmaker Anand Patwardhan and Mahatma Gandhi’s great-grandson writer Tushar Arun Gandhi.
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While the signatories included retired professor of international relations and former head of political science at Delhi University, Achin Vanaik, and author and former professor of biomedical engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Professor Ram Panyani.
Campaigners to block the screening of Israeli films said that 8 percent of Gaza’s population had been killed in the recent Israeli offensive. “The management of NFDC and NMIC should be aware of the fact that the Government of India has consistently voted in favor of ceasefire.”
That is why the National Museum of Indian Cinema and the National Film Development Corporation were urged that screening Israeli films under these circumstances would be totally unethical, unethical and irresponsible.
Feroze Mithi Borwala of the India-Palestine Solidarity Forum, who plays an active role in the public pettish, told Arab News that it is beyond his understanding that Israeli films are being screened in Mumbai when the whole world is condemning Israeli war crimes. How can a government department exhibit?
He said that a petition was posted on social media on Monday against the Israeli Cinema Festival, which went viral within hours.
“Three or four of us (persons) got together and ran a campaign and it went viral in India, it went viral in Palestine (and) it was picked up by the Palestinian ambassador in Delhi.”
Mithi Borwala said that among the signatories of the petition were leaders of social movements, writers, artists and intellectuals.
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2024-08-21 17:18:44
