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‘Neutrality should not be an option’: why are so many artists now speaking out on Gaza?
ByTim Jonze September 10, 2025

Musician Brian Eno and artist Malak Mattar, key figures in next week’s Together for Palestine concert, explain why artists are putting fears of a backlash aside and uniting in the call for actionA red carpet event, especially one to promote the new Dow…

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Holding Liat review – powerful study of a family torn apart by Hamas’ 7 October attacks
ByPeter Bradshaw September 10, 2025

Brandon Kramer’s documentary complicates any simple view of the Israel-Gaza war in its portrait of one family’s agonising divisionsAt the present moment, for pro-Palestinian campaigners, mention of the hostages and victims of Hamas’s 7 October attacks …

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From Ground Zero: Stories From Gaza review – scenes of ordinary life in extremis
ByPeter Bradshaw September 9, 2025

This heartbreaking collection of short films mentions neither ‘Israel’ nor ‘Hamas’, instead offering a mosaic of everyday living under nonstop attackThis collection of short films from Gaza film-makers gives a mosaic of images, ideas and microvignettes…

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‘It’s so different from the media narrative’: telling a different story of 7 October
ByJulian Borger September 9, 2025

Brandon Kramer’s documentary Holding Liat follows an Israeli family torn apart by the Hamas attacks, but clinging to hopes of reconciliationWhen Hamas attacked southern Israeli communities on 7 October 2023, unleashing a devastating retaliation against…

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‘It’s so different from the media narrative’: telling a different story of 7 October
ByJulian Borger September 9, 2025

Brandon Kramer’s documentary Holding Liat follows an Israeli family torn apart by the Hamas attacks, but clinging to hopes of reconciliationWhen Hamas attacked southern Israeli communities on 7 October 2023, unleashing a devastating retaliation against…

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Actors and directors pledge not to work with Israeli film groups ‘implicated in genocide’
ByAnna Betts September 8, 2025September 10, 2025

Exclusive: Thousands of film workers join new boycott initiative criticized by Israeli producers’ group as ‘misguided’Thousands of actors, directors and other film industry professionals have signed a new pledge vowing not to work with Israeli film ins…

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Where God Is Not review – victims of torture by the Iranian secret police re-enact their abuse
ByPhuong Le September 8, 2025

Empowering for some, deeply traumatic for others, the former detainees in Mehran Tamadon’s documentary paint a harrowing picture of systematic maltreatmentMehran Tamadon’s probing film operates a kind of dialogue with his related documentary My Worst E…

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Where God Is Not review – victims of torture by the Iranian secret police re-enact their abuse
ByPhuong Le September 8, 2025

Empowering for some, deeply traumatic for others, the former detainees in Mehran Tamadon’s documentary paint a harrowing picture of systematic maltreatmentMehran Tamadon’s probing film operates a kind of dialogue with his related documentary My Worst E…

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The Voice of Hind Rajab review – docufiction is fierce, vehement and heart-shattering
ByPeter Bradshaw September 4, 2025

In an audacious move, director Kaouther Ben Hania reconstructs the killing of the five-year-old in Gaza using her real voice as she is bombarded by the Israeli armyThere can be no doubt about which movie has set the Venice film festival ablaze – it is …

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Billy Bragg releases song in support of Palestine and Greta Thunberg aid flotilla
ByLaura Snapes September 2, 2025

Hundred Year Hunger – which has a chorus in Arabic – has been released by the British protest singer to coincide with a humanitarian aid flotilla heading for GazaBilly Bragg has released a new original song to show his support for the people of Palesti…

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