More than 350 people from the world's personalities, including Richard Geer, Susan Sarandon and Javier Bardem, have published an open speech on the eve of the Cannes Film Festival condemning “silence” on the deadly influence of the continuous military campaign of Israel in Gaza.
The message, which was published on the Libération website in France on Monday evening, was headed by “at the Cannes Festival, Gaza should not be made horror.” It was taken for “Fatem”, on the memory of Gaza's 25 -year -old artist Fatima Hassona.
The young woman was killed in an Israeli air strike in mid -April, just 24 hours after the announcement of a documentary film to explore her life in the Gaza Strip, the global show at the Cannes Festival. Ten of her relatives, including her pregnant sister, was killed in the same strike.
“She was an independent Palestinian photographer. She was targeted by the Israeli army on April 16, 2025, a day after the announcement of a Persian movie that will be built by Persian Put your soul on your hand and walkThe star was chosen in the acid department at the Cannes Film Festival. She was about to marry, “Read the message.
“Since the terrible massacres on October 7, 2023, a foreign corrector has not been allowed to enter the Gaza Strip. The Israeli army has been targeting civilians. More than 200 journalists have been killed. The writers, directors and artists are brutally killed.”
The bombing and Gaza of Israel began in Gaza in October 2023 in response to Hamas attacks on October 7 on southern Israel, which killed 1,200 people and took 251 hostages.
After eighteen months, at least 52,600 people were killed by Israeli military action, according to the numbers issued by the Hamas Health Authority, while 2.4 million people face a severe food shortage due to the siege for two months of basic supplies by Israel.
The message was published a few hours after the launch of the Israeli hostage, Edin Alexander, while he said it was an intention before US President Donald Trump's visit to the Middle East, which does not include Israel. About 58 hostages are still missing in Gaza, with about 24 of them still believed to be alive.
Among the additional signers Pedro is the Nawdir, Javier Bardem, Lila Bakhti, Kadath Bin Hania, David Kronberg, Costa Gavra, Julie Delby, Alice Diop, Kazavier Doulan, Adele Exarscopolos, Nicole Garcia, Jonathan Glazer, Anne. Lánthimos, Nadav Lapid, Mike Leigh, Boris Lojkine, Kleber Mindonça, Viggo Mortensen, Laura Poitras, Ruben östlund, Mark Ruffalo and Ira Sachs.
The letter also shed light on the case of Palestinian director Hamdan Balla, the co -director of an Oscar -winning documentary movie There is no other land, With Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra and Rachel Szor, which was attacked by Israeli settlers and then the army kidnapped them in late March, before being released under international pressure.
“The Oscar Academy's lack of support for Hamdan Bali has angered its members and was forced to publicly apologize for its failure,” read the message, referring to the body.
“As artists and cultural players, we cannot remain silent during the genocide in Gaza, and this that is indescribable to strikes our societies hard. What is the goal of our professions if we do not draw lessons from history, to make committed films, if we are not present to protect oppressed voices? Why are Celsius?”
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Fatima Hasuna (Fatam) was 25 years old.
She was an independent Palestinian photographer. It was targeted by the Israeli army on April 16, 2025, a day after the announcement that the movie Sepideh Farsi put your soul on your hand and walk, which was the star, in the acid department at the Cannes Film Festival.
She was about to marry.
Ten of her relatives, including her pregnant sister, were killed on the same Israeli strike.
Since the terrible massacres on October 7, 2023, a foreign corrector has not been allowed to enter the Gaza Strip. The Israeli army targets civilians. More than 200 journalists were killed intentionally. The book, filmmakers and artists are brutally killed.
At the end of March, Palestinian film maker Hamdan Balla, who won the Academy Award for his movie “No Land”, directed by Yoval Abraham, was subjected to Basel Edra and Rashil Zorus, brutally by Israeli settlers, and then the army kidnapped them, before they were issued under international pressure. The Oscar Academy's lack of Hamdan Bali's support of anger among its members and has to publicly apologize for its failure.
We are ashamed of this negativity.
Why does it seem that the cinema, which is a ground for multiplying for socially committed works, is indifferent to the horror of reality and the repression that our sisters and brothers suffered?
As artists and cultural players, we cannot remain silent during the genocide in Gaza, and this that is indescribable to strikes our societies hard.
What is the goal of our professions if not to extract lessons from history, to make committed films, if we are not present to protect the persecuted voices?
Why this silence?
The extremist right, fascism, colonialism, anti -tanning, gay control, nationality, racism, phobia, anti -Semitic, launch its battle in the battle of ideas, attacking publishing, cinema and universities, which is why we are the duty to fight.
Let's refuse to allow our art to be a partner for the worst.
Let's get up.
Let's call reality.
Let us collect collectively to look at it with the accuracy of our sensitive hearts, so that it can no longer silence it and cover it.
Let's reject propaganda that constantly colonizes our imagination and makes us lose our sense of humanity.
For Fatem, for all who die in indifference.
Cinema has the duty to carry its messages, to reflect our societies.
Let's act before it is too late.
