Pink Floyd cofounder Roger Waters, Nobel Prize-winning writer Annie Ernaux and directors Matteo Garrone and Isabel Coixet have lent their support to an open letter calling on the Venice Film Festival, its parent body the Venice Biennale and the audiovisual world in general to take concrete action in support of Palestine.
The letter, published just days before the festival’s opening on September 2, has been organised by the Venice4Palestine collective, which last year lobbied for the festival to publicly acknowledge the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza and oversaw a public demonstration on the first weekend.
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