Udi Aloni Is an Israeli and American artist and director whose projects in films and visual arts frequently explore the discourse between theology and politics
Announcing The
2010 Platinum Bear for Free Speech
Filmmaker and Actor, Mohammad Bakri
Presented by the official friends of the 60th Berlinale
This past month, the State of Israel has attempted to silence Mohammad Bakri, one of our cinema’s greatest actors and documentary filmmakers, an essential figure of both Israeli and Palestinian cinema. In protest, a group of past [...]
I find it appropriate that the Israeli public be notified of the emerging movement for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel (BDS), which has been growing at a breathtaking pace.Following bewildered reports published by Yedioth Ahronoth journalist Sever Plocker, who noticed that BDS has moved from the circles of the radical western Left to the [...]
Read more »“He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted”
Isaiah, chapter 53, [...]
Announcing The
2010 Platinum Bear for Free Speech
Filmmaker and Actor, Mohammad Bakri
Presented by the official friends of the 60th Berlinale
This past month, the State of Israel has attempted to silence Mohammad Bakri, one of our cinema’s greatest actors and documentary filmmakers, an essential figure of both Israeli and Palestinian cinema. In protest, a group of past [...]
