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San Sebastian Festival to Proceed With ‘No Me Ilame Ternera’ Screenings Despite Alleged Terrorist Links

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Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief Organizers of the San Sebastian Film Festival said on Wednesday that they would proceed with scheduled screenings of the film “No Me Ilame Ternera,” despite calls for it to be withdrawn.

According to objectors the film has connections to terrorism. Festival organizers said that they were aware of – but had not received – a letter supposedly signed by 514 people, asking for the previously selected film to be withdrawn from the festival. “We do not share their opinion that the film ‘No me llame Ternera’ should be withdrawn from the program of this coming edition of the festival for having Josu Urrutikoetxea as its protagonist and the fact that he held a very high position within the terrorist group, ETA,” the festival said.

ETA was an armed Basque nationalist separatist organization that operated in the Basque region, including the area where the San Sebastian festival is held, between 1959 and 2018.

It was alleged to have assassinated a police officer in San Sebastian, bombed the city’s railway station and to have kidnapped the German Consul in the city.

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