“We join the myriad of voices calling for an end to genocide, like the one happening in Gaza,” Fariba Sheikhan and Mariona Terés, the hosts of this evening’s San Sebastián Film Festival opening ceremony, concluded in their welcoming remarks.
“And we stand in solidarity with the directors of the film Naza, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, who have been threatened by the Israeli government,” the pair added. The duo received a lively round of applause from the crowd inside the festival’s Kursaal auditorium.
Like many political and cultural institutions across Spain, the San Sebastián Film Festival has been consistently
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