Berlin Mayor Criticizes “Anti-Semitic” Berlinale Closing Ceremony As Hackers Post Ceasefire Message To Fest’s Social
deadline.comA high-politicized edition of the Berlin Film Festival ended Saturday, but divisions surrounding political messaging during the festival appear to be ongoing.
Sunday afternoon, the official Berlinale shared a statement on its social media account announcing that it plans to “file criminal charges against unknown persons” who it said shared “posts about the war in the Middle East.” The posts mentioned by the festival were shared on the official Berlinale Panorama Instagram account and featured a series of infographics. “Genocide is Genocide.
We are all complicit,” the first infographic said. Another post claimed that festival staff had decided to “shed the idea that German guilt absolves us of our country’s history or our current crimes,” and in turn, they have decided to call for an “immediate and permanent ceasefire” to violence in Gaza.
The posts ended with the message: “From our unresolved Nazi past to our genocidal present — we have always been on the wrong side of history.
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