• "carte postale" de F.Reusser à la conférence de presse organisé par BDS Suisse à #Locarno

    "Ma « carte postale » vidéo montrée à la conférence de presse organisée aujourd’hui 7 août à #Locarno par les opposants (Ken Loach, Alain Tanner, Jean-Luc Godard etc.) à l’invitation faite au gouvernement israélien (Israel Film Fund) par le Festival. J’y clarifie ma position, souvent manipulée ou tordue pour me faire dire ce que je ne dis pas (air connu)." F.Reusser

    https://s.vimeocdn.com/vimeo-prod-skyfire-std-us/01/2035/5/135177930/399636182.mp4?token=55cde88c_0xf2fe7692a45d5d65552b2eb45f9bf69e7f9988f6


    #Israël #Palestine #apartheid #cinéma #festival_du_film_de_Locarno #résistance

    v. aussi :
    https://www.facebook.com/francis.reusser/posts/10207202577441160
    cc @reka

  • Le Festival de Locarno déploie le tapis rouge à Israël moins d’une année après les terribles massacres high-tech sur Gaza de l’été dernier. Les cinéastes palestiniens, accompagnés de plusieurs figures du cinéma international, demandent à la direction de ‪Locarno‬ de ne pas donner de prime glamour à l’impunité des crimes contre l’humanité.

    About the Carte Blanche dedicated to Israeli cinema
    http://www.pardolive.ch/en/Pardo-Live/today-at-the-festival/2015/carte-blanche-israel.html

    Tell Film Festival Locarno (Official Page) Israel is not “complex”, its industry is simply oppressive (ex. http://www.haaretz.com…/movies-television/.premium-1.639252). Indigenous Palestinians have no chance to “debate and dialogue” while their culture is being erased. Do NOT lend a hand to institutionalised ethnocide. Boycott Israel!

    Angry birds can tweet to @FilmFestLocarno
    Hashtag: #Locarno68

    Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel BDS Italia Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) Movement US Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation Don’t Play Apartheid Israel Artists Against Apartheid Bds Tips BDS Norfolk BDS Norge / BDS Norway BDS Kampagne BDS Berlin BDS Madrid BDS Belgium BDS Belgium Bds Bages Boston BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions) Leeds Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions - BDS Campagne BDS France - Boycott Désinvestissement Sanctions contre Israël BDS Egypt Grup BDS Catalunya Bds Genève Bds Girona London BDS group BDS Granada Campanha BDS Galiza Jordan BDS BDS Los Angeles for Justice in Palestine McMaster BDS BDS Maroc BDS Marseille BDS Malaysia BDS Nederland BDS Support Network BDS New York Aotearoa BDS Network BDS of Southern California BDS-Québec BDS România BDS South Africa حملة المقاطعة وسحب الاستثمارات وفرض العقوبات BDS Tunisia UAlbany for BDS BDS País Valencià BDS Zürich

    https://www.facebook.com/noonessparerib/posts/1093536240662454

    #locarno #festival #bds #israel #tapis_rouge #crimes

  • Pétition au Festival du Film de Locarno (en anglais, mais la liste des signataires est impressionnante)

    Filmmakers to Locarno Film Festival: Don’t Give Israeli Apartheid a Carte Blanche
    http://www.pacbi.org/etemplate.php?id=2702

    It has come to our attention that the Locarno Film Festival has chosen to place Israel as the center of this year’s festival in its “Carte Blanche” initiative, in cooperation with the Israeli Film Fund. This fund is an Israeli government-funded agency which receives support from the Israel Film Council, the government appointed film funding advisory body, as well as support from the Film unit at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs whose aim is to “promote Israeli films abroad with the support of the cultural attachés in the Israeli embassies throughout the world.”

    We, the undersigned filmmakers and industry professionals, would like to express our deep concern with the fact that the Locarno festival is choosing to partner with the Israel Film Fund and Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, despite the fact that Israel has not just continued, but intensified its decades-old occupation, colonization, and ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian people.

    We are particularly disturbed about the timing of this Locarno Film Festival decision to promote Israel, coming on the heels of Israel’s latest massacre in Gaza in the summer of 2014, where more than two thousand Palestinians were killed, including more than five hundred children. Locarno’s decision also follows the election of the most racist, far-right government in Israel’s history.

    Given the current belligerence exhibited by Israel in its ongoing brutal attacks on Palestinian civilians and infrastructure, justified by the same Ministry of Foreign Affairs that you have chosen to be a partner of the festival, we demand that the festival organizers reconsider their relationship to the government of Israel, and withdraw their partnership with the Israel Film Fund, Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs and all other official Israeli entities. If the idea is to support individual Israeli filmmakers or screen Israeli films, there are many ways to do so without accepting funding or other forms of support from the Israeli state and government organizations.

    We make this demand in consideration of the Palestinian filmmakers who have lost their lives or their loved ones this year due to Israel’s military attacks. We do so in consideration of the many cultural centers, arts institutions and universities targeted by Israeli bombs and missiles. We do so because we are in solidarity with those who are under siege. Under these circumstances, the actions of the State of Israel cannot be treated as normal. We do so because some of us are under siege, clinging on to our art and our humanity and contributing to our collective struggle for freedom, justice and equality.

    We hope that our colleagues and friends at the Locarno Film Festival will stand with us. We hope you will recognize the direness of the present situation, and that you will choose to stand for human dignity in the face of barbarity and injustice perpetrated against any and all peoples.

    It is well worth revisiting the timeless words of the German philosopher, Walter Benjamin, from his Theses on the Philosophy of History:

    “The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the ’state of emergency’ in which we live is not the exception but the rule. We must attain to a conception of history that is in keeping with this insight. Then we shall clearly realize that it is our task to bring about a real state of emergency, and this will improve our position in the struggle against Fascism. One reason why Fascism has a chance is that in the name of progress its opponents treat it as a historical norm. The current amazement that the things we are experiencing are ’still’ possible in the twentieth century is not philosophical. This amazement is not the beginning of knowledge - unless it is the knowledge that the view of history which gives rise to it is untenable.”

    Sincerely,

    Annemarie Jacir, Filmmaker, Palestine
    Elia Suleiman, Filmmaker, France
    Ken Loach, Director, UK
    Mira Nair, Director, India/Uganda
    Hany Abu-Assad, Director, Palestine
    Mohammad Bakri, Actor, Palestine
    Saleh Bakri, Actor, Palestine
    Simone Bitton, Film Director, France
    Joslyn Barnes, Producer, USA
    Richard Horowitz, Composer & Producer, USA
    Irit Neidhardt, Distributor & Co-Producer & Curator, Germany
    Eyal Sivan, Filmmaker & Scholar, France/Israel
    Rebecca O’Brien, Film Producer, UK
    Walter Bernstein, Screenwriter, USA
    Yasmine Hamdan, Singer, Lebanon/France
    Jasmila Zbanic, Filmmaker, Bosnia and Herzegovina
    Paul Laverty, Screenwriter, UK
    Ossama Bawardi, Producer, Palestine
    Karine Guignard, Actress & Hip Hop Artist, Switzerland
    Hazem Berrabah, DOP, Tunisia
    Abdel Salam Shehada, Filmmaker, Gaza/Palestine
    Khaled Abol Naga, Actor & Producer & Director, Egypt
    Marie-Pierre Macia, Producer, France
    Ula Tabari, Filmmaker & Actress, France
    Helene Louvart, Cinematographer, France
    Kamran Rastegar, Music Composer, USA
    Georgina Paget, Producer, UK
    Zeina Durra, Filmmaker, UK
    Rasha Salti, Film Programmer, Lebanon
    Monica Maurer, Filmmaker & Journalist, Germany/Italy
    Tala Hadid, Writer & Director, Morocco
    John Greyson, Filmmaker, Canada
    Hala Lotfy, Filmmaker, Egypt
    Nicolas Wadimoff, Filmmaker & Producer, Switzerland
    Dictynna Hood, Director, UK
    Mai Masri, Filmmaker, Palestine
    George Azar, Documentary Filmmaker, USA
    Cat Villiers, Producer, UK
    Mahdi Fleifel, Director, Amsterdam
    Khalid Abdalla, Actor & Producer, Egypt/UK
    Sally El Hosaini, Filmmaker, UK
    Ounouri Damien, Director, Algeria
    Enas Al Muthafar, Director, Palestine
    Nicole Ballivian, Screenwriter & Director, USA
    Najwa Najjar, Film Director, Palestine
    Yahya Barakat, Film Director, Palestine
    Nahed Awwad, Film Director, Palestine
    Patrick Campbell, Producer, UK
    Samir, Director & Producer, Switzerland
    Alain Bottarelli, Producer, Switzerland
    Palmyre Badinier, Producer, France
    Stina Werenfels, Director, Switzerland
    Frederic Choffat, Filmmaker, Switzerland
    Saed Andoni, Producer, Palestine
    Kamal Jafari, Filmmaker, Palestine
    Nicholas Blincoe, Screenwriter, UK
    George Khleifi, Filmmaker, Palestine
    Dima Abu Ghoush, Filmmaker, Palestine
    Najwa Mubarki, Casting Director, Palestine
    Salim Abu Jabal, Filmmaker, Syria/Palestine
    Majdi El-Omari, Filmmaker, Canada/Palestine
    Jenny Morgan, Filmmaker, UK
    Ramzi Maqdisi, Actor & Filmmaker, Palestine
    Raed Helou, Filmmaker, Palestine
    Dahna Abourahme, Filmmaker, Lebanon
    Georgina Asfour, Filmmaker & Script Supervisor, Palestine
    Azza El-Hassan, Filmmaker, Palestine
    Rana Kazkaz, Filmmaker, USA/Syria
    Mary Ellen Davis, Director, Canada
    Norma Marcos, Filmmaker, Palestine/France
    Hatem Alsharif, Writer, Jordan
    Narimane Mari, Director & Producer, Algeria
    Rashid Masharawi​, Director & Producer, Palestine
    Omar Robert Hamilton, Writer & Director, Egypt
    Anand Patwardhan, Filmmaker, India
    Susan Youssef, Filmmaker, Lebanon
    Osama Abed, Screenwriter & Director, Palestine
    Sylvain L’Esperance, Filmmaker, Canada
    Rama Mari, Filmmaker, Palestine
    Riyad Deis, Filmmaker, Palestine
    Buthina Canaan khoury, Filmmaker, Palestine
    Nasri Hajjaj, Writer & Filmmaker, Palestine
    Jumana Manna, Artist, Palestine
    Lyana Saleh, Director & Producer, France
    Martin Duckworth, Filmmaker, Canada
    Brett Story, Filmmaker, Canada
    Hanna Atallah, Filmmaker & Producer, Palestine
    Dr. Ezzaldeen Shalh, Film Critic, Palestine
    Shannon Walsh, Filmmaker, Hong Kong/Canada
    Nora Alsharif, Director, Jordan
    Zain Duraie, Filmmaker, Jordan
    Akram Safadi, Filmmaker , Palestine
    Hicham Kayed, Filmmaker, Lebanon
    Suha Arraf, Filmmaker, Palestine
    Pacho Velez, Filmmaker, USA
    Linda Mutawi, Producer, Jordan/Sweden
    Khadijeh Habashneh Abu Ali, Filmmaker, Jordan
    May Odeh, Director & Producer, Palestine
    Liana Badr, Author & Filmmaker, Palestine
    Sophia Al-Maria, Screenwriter, UK
    Hanan Abdalla, Documentary Filmmaker, Egypt/UK
    Maher Abi Samra, Filmmaker, France
    Amber Fares, Filmmaker, Canada/Palestine
    Thaer Alsahli, Director & Writer, Netherlands
    Ashraf Mashharawi, Filmmaker, Palestine
    Alisa Lebow, Filmmaker & Scholar, UK
    Maysoon Pachachi, Filmmaker, UK/Iraq
    Guy Sherwin, Filmmaker, UK
    Haim Bresheeth, Filmmaker, UK
    George Costigan, Actor, UK
    John Smith, Filmmaker, UK
    Miranda Pennell, Filmmaker, UK
    Jill Daniels, Filmmaker, UK
    Samir Abdallah, Filmmaker, Egypt/France
    Claus Josten, Filmmaker, Germany
    Ruba Blal Asfour, Actress, Palestine
    Fenia Cossovitsa Producer, Greece
    Alaa Al Ali, Multimedia Artist, Sweden
    Yaser Fares, Artist & Filmmaker, Germany
    Tarazan Nasser, Filmmaker, Gaza/Palestine Arab Nasser, Filmmaker, Gaza/Palestine
    Larissa Sansour, Artist, UK
    Mahmoud Al Massad, Writer & Director, Jordan
    Dima Hamdallah, Writer & Producer, Jordan
    Sherif Elbendary, Filmmaker, Egypt
    Hamada Atallah, Costume Designer, Palestine
    Khaled Jarrar, Filmmaker & Artist, Palestine
    George Hencken, Filmmaker, London
    Eyad Hourani, Actor, Palestine
    Ridha Tlili, Filmmaker, Tunisia
    Amer Shomali, Filmmaker, Palestine
    Marco Pasquini, Documentary Filmmaker & Cinematographer, Italy
    Kassem Hawal, Filmmaker & Writer, Iraq
    Khalo Matabane, Filmmaker, South Africa
    Yahya Alabdallah, Filmmaker, Jordan
    Sabah Haider, Filmmaker, Canada/Lebanon
    Sean Jacobs, Film Faculty, USA/South Africa
    Rashid Abdelhamid, Producer, Palestine
    Meriem Varone, Script Consultant, France
    Firas Khoury, Director, Palestine
    Leila Sansour, Film Director & Producer, UK/Palestine
    Hakim Noury, Filmmaker, Morocco
    Farida Benlyazid, Filmmaker, Morocco Khalil Benkirane, Filmmaker, Qatar

    #Palestine #BDS #Boycott_Culturel #Cinema #Festival #Locarno