Скачать или смотреть Organizers of Venice4Palestine hold press conference outside the Venice Film Festival, ahead of furt

(27 Aug 2025)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Venice - 27 August 2025
1. Various of protesters holding up sign and waving flag
2. UPSOUND (Italian) Martina Vergnano, activist with the Social Centers of the Northeast:
"The intentions behind this demonstration have been clear from the outset and remain the same: to shine the spotlight of the Film Festival in the right direction. Right now, that direction is Palestine. The news is getting worse every day after 80 years of occupation. We are currently witnessing genocide in every sense of the word. It can no longer be denied. Even the latest developments with the occupation of Gaza have seen yet another bombing of a hospital in the last few hours. The atrocities must be stopped, they must be stopped now. This is genocide, no one can deny it anymore. And it is time to demand that it be stopped. It is time to demand that it be stopped by denouncing those who are directly complicit in the genocide and the genocidal government of Israel. Because Western governments, led by the United States, but also our very own Italian government, are directly involved, with international complicity and without putting any brakes on the sale of weapons, military equipment, and military software to Israel, which is directing them directly against the Palestinian people, attempting to carry out ethnic cleansing and, to all intents and purposes, genocide."
3. Various of protesters
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Nahabi Telafai, activist with the Social Centers of the Northeast:
"So on Saturday we've called for a manifestation, a demonstration to stop the genocide that's happening right now in Palestine and to, sort of point the, the eyes of the star system, not in, you know, the pretty dresses of the, of the festival, but actually on, what is happening and the genocide and the violence that is ongoing right now in Palestine, so, yeah, this is the plan. The people who... the signatures are like more than 100 of different organizations and people from the film industry that actually subscribe to the call for action. Even the presenter of the festival is in solidarity with the demonstration. So, we hope a lot of people will come and actually do sort of point the eyes of the world and what is happening in Gaza and in all Palestine."
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6. SOUNDBITE (English) Nahabi Telafai, activist with the Social Centers of the Northeast:
"What we want to do right now is actually to bring the attention to what is happening, bring awareness, and have this sort of pool of people to ask for this to stop. This is one of the main claims, to stop that selling arms and armaments to the Israeli regime, to stop diplomatic accords with the Israeli regime. So, yeah. Sort of isolate the Israeli state, which is right now committing genocide and war crimes. We know, that Netanyahu is a researched war criminal. So this has to stop."
7. Various of protesters
STORYLINE:
As the Venice Film Festival kicks off this week, activists hope to redirect the spotlight from the Hollywood stars arriving on the Lido to Gaza, with an anti-war demonstration planned for one of the festival’s biggest nights.

The group Venice4Palestine has called on the festival and its parent organization, the Venice Biennale, to end partnerships with groups supporting the Israeli government and withdraw invitations to actors Gerard Butler and Gal Gadot.

Protesters held a news conference Wednesday morning in front of the famed red carpet to talk about their plan to march Saturday evening toward the festival, which is hosting the world premiere of Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein” that night.











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