{"id":13225,"date":"2026-02-21T00:16:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T00:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/cinema-and-politics-collide-at-berlin-film-festival-in-row-over-gaza-war\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T00:16:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T00:16:42","slug":"cinema-and-politics-collide-at-berlin-film-festival-in-row-over-gaza-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/cinema-and-politics-collide-at-berlin-film-festival-in-row-over-gaza-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Cinema and politics collide at Berlin Film Festival in row over Gaza war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/s.rfi.fr\/media\/display\/4ddfe65e-0d97-11f1-9a4d-005056a97e36\/w:1024\/p:16x9\/000-97B46NT.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" \/><br \/>Separating cinema and politics is proving difficult at the Berlin Film Festival, where once again Israel&#8217;s military offensive in Gaza is dividing filmmakers.\u00a0More than 90 actors and directors have signed an open letter condemning the organisers&#8217; reticence to speak out against what they call a &#8220;genocide&#8221; of Palestinians.<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/en\/culture\/20260219-cinema-and-politics-collide-at-berlin-film-festival-in-row-over-gaza-war\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Separating cinema and politics is proving difficult at the Berlin Film Festival, where once again Israel&#8217;s military offensive in Gaza is dividing&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3448,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemonde.express\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}