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Indian author Arundhati Roy has announced that she is withdrawing from the Berlin International Film Festival after what she described as “unconscionable statements” by its jury members about Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.

Writing in India’s The Wire newspaper, Roy said she found recent remarks from members of the Berlinale jury, including its chair, acclaimed director Wim Wenders, that “art should not be political” to be “jaw-dropping”.

“It is a way of shutting down a conversation about a crime against humanity even as it unfolds before us in real time,” wrote Roy, the author of novels and nonfiction, including The God of Small Things.

“I am shocked and disgusted,” Roy wrote, adding that she believed “artists, writers and filmmakers should be doing everything in their power to stop” the war in Gaza.

“Let me say this clearly: what has happened in Gaza, what continues to happen, is a genocide of the Palestinian people by the State of Israel,” she wrote.

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[–] Stern@lemmy.world 86 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Writing in India’s The Wire newspaper, Roy said she found recent remarks from members of the Berlinale jury, including its chair, acclaimed director Wim Wenders, that “art should not be political” to be “jaw-dropping”.

Fuckin lmao. Does dude think Animal Farm is about talking animals?

[–] nulluser@lemmy.world 44 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Decided to go look up who this guy is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wim_Wenders

In 2009, Wenders signed a petition in support of director Roman Polanski, who had been detained while traveling to a film festival in relation to his 1977 sexual abuse charges

Someone check the Epstein files for this guy.

[–] Doorbook@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

Lol it's the same group of people who think human are items they can buy abuse and throw away.

[–] SexualPolytope 39 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

To bastardize a very popular quote, everything in this world is political, except for politics. Politics is about money.

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 13 points 4 days ago

Meanwhile every politcal event is full of artwork, from music, flyers, videoclips, cartoons to the national anthem.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 28 points 3 days ago

Art should not be political? That about the most cowardly thing any artist could say. Even if I don't agree with the politics on display, I can still understand that they have the right to express their politics in art, although bad politics generally results in bad art. That's half the fun.

[–] jif@piefed.ca 45 points 4 days ago

Arundhati Roy is badass

[–] Vanth@reddthat.com 26 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

"art should not be political"

I'm excited to hear an extraterrestrial alien has come to visit, because surely this is not a human being who has lived even one day of the human experience. Too bad the alien is cool with genocide.

[–] belastend@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 4 days ago

"Art should not be political", he said, thereby politicizing art. Fucking imbecile, 90% of good art is political. Now go fuck yourself with a broom handle, du Produkt einer mit Kleingeld vergüteten Liebesbeziehung.

[–] Tiger666@lemmy.ca 6 points 3 days ago

Someone should tell Pablo Picasso about art not being political.

[–] Pofski@lemmy.world 26 points 4 days ago
[–] MonsterMonster@lemmy.world 20 points 4 days ago

I think the Berlinale jury needs to take a look at this list of films.

And when they've finished take a look at Picasso's Guernica.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Germany has a massive ongoing problem of the use of ethnicity to classify people and the practice of ethnic-Descrimination being normalized in German society, especially Politics and the Press, all of which adds up to Extreme Racism (it's the only country in Europe were a head of state has justified sending weapons and ammo to a Genocidal state whilst they were mass murdering children, with the need to support the dominant ethnicity of the aggressor state).

This shit is definitely not Humanist Values - were people's treatment depends only on their actions and their need, not at all their ethnicity - but rather an older way of looking at other people and the World which, curiously, is very much the same as the NAZIs, though not quite yet taken to the same extreme in terms of action inside of Europe (though the same can't be said for how extreme its practice has been Palestine).

The revelation of Modern Day Germany being so profoundly Racist that even Genocide committed along ethnic lines is something that the country will support as long as the ethnicity of the genociders is one deemed "good" (Jewish) and the victims one deemed "bad" or "lesser" (Muslims), should be scary for all of us Europeans as you never know when Germany will whilst walking such path come to the point of seeing other European ethnicities too as "lesser" one which can be eliminated to take their land just like Israel is doing to Palestinians.

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Nazi Germany doing Nazi Germany things

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Wim Wenders

God fucking damnit, why are they all such pieces of shit???