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VENICE (Reuters) Just a month before the first anniversary of Hamas attack on Israel and the start of the war in Gaza, Israeli filmmakers have brought the horrors of the conflict to the Venice Film Festival...
Of Dogs And Men was filmed on location in a kibbutz that was targeted by Palestinian militants last October, following a teenage girl seeking her dog that she had lost during the assault she herself had survived days before...
Confronting the aftermath of the massacre in her own shattered community, she witnesses, at a distance, the tragedy unfolding across the border fence in Gaza as Israeli forces pound the coastal enclave...
On the first day of the festival, more than 300 filmmakers, actors, writers and musicians published a letter condemning the inclusion Of Dogs And Men and another Israeli film, Why War, saying Israeli production houses were complicit in the oppression of Palestinians...
I dont think that in the immediate term cinema can bring about change, you know, even Guernica in the end, which is maybe the most significant piece of art about the horrors of war, didnt change the situation in Spain, he said, referring to Pablo Picassos epic vision of the Spanish civil war...
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