A huge gauze protest marches according to Venice Film Festival

The Venice Film Festival On Saturday, he became the focus probably the biggest protest ever seen at a large film event over the main attack of Israel on Gaza.

Thousands, young and old, made up of guests of the festivals and members of the public, participated in a large marched renewal of Israel and inviting the end of genocide. You have an average sea of ​​Palestinian flags, was the singing of “free free Palestine”. Despite the serious nature of the message, there was a carnival feeling, with protesters in stilts that wave “peaceful” banners, music by mining from speakers, flares and foconges.

Protest – arranged with the support of numerous groups, associations and organizations – aimed to ensure that the festival has a visible public position on the war in Gaza and was used as a platform.

“The Venice Film Festival must not remain insulated from reality, but rather the genocide performed by Israel, complicity of Western governments, and to offer concrete support to the Palestinian people, previously said that the organizers previously said in the announcement.

In that purpose, visibility was undeniable. The main roads of Lido closed the police that March was slowly becoming the way to the main festival area.

“In Gaza, hospitals, schools and refugee camps are bombed; journalists and doctors are killed; at the same time, in the Western Gauze of the Israeli government, continued escalation. International law,” a statement added.

“Italy and Europe – through weapons supplies, economic agreements and diplomatic covers – are complicated in this barbarian. It’s time to stop the massacre, stop the sales of weapons, stop Western complicity.”

In addition to the international condemnation of Israela, Gaza, because the number of killed civilians continued to grow, the Venice Film Festival – a generally less political event compared to other Festivals of A-Lists became one of the loudest.

Earlier of the week, the protesters waved Palestinian flags and held a banquet reading “free Palestine. Stop genocide” in front of the Festival seat, Palazzo del Cinema.

Ahead of the Festival, Venice Organizers Were Urged by Hundreds of International Filmmakers and Artists to Take a “Clear and Unambiguous Stand (in) Condemning The Ongoing Genocide in Gaza And The Ethnic Cleansing Across Palestine Carried Out By The Israeli Government and Army.” They are also invited to disinfect familiarities that have shown public support to Israel, such as “in hand Dante” Gal Gadot and Gerard Butler. Gadot was later confirmed as non-presence.

In response to the letter, Biennale said that the Venice Film Festival was “always, in their history of open discussions and sensitivity to the all the most comfortable problems faced by society and the world. The evidence is, first and most important, works presented (at the festival).”

Venice Chief Alberto Barbera Was Asked on the Festival’s Stance on the War In Gaza, to White Asked to Turn Down Invitations to Artists; We Will Not Do That. If They Want To Be At The Festival, They Will Be Here. On The Other Hand, We Have Have Never hesitated to Clearly Declare Our Huge Sadness and Suffering Vis-à-Vis What is Happening in Gaza and Palestine. The Death Civilians, and especially children, which are victims, collateral, which no one else could end. “

Meanwhile, the president of the Venice Alexander Payne decided to offer his point of view on that issue. “I’m here to judge and talk about the cinema. My political views, I’m sure, in agreement with many of yours.”