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Film workers for Palestine

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Film workers for Palestine is a call by 6,000+ filmmakers and cinema workers for an end to genocide and for a free Palestine 🍉 New here, but you can see what we’ve been up to on our Instagram: @filmworkers4palestine filmworkersforpalestine.org

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Chaz Harris @chazharris.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm a signatory of the @filmworks4pal.bsky.social boycott & it doesn't target individual artists. Genocide is collective punishment. Holding complicit companies & institutions accountable is not. I won't be reconsidering my stance, but they should. #FreePalestine 🍉 variety.com/2025/film/gl...

Liev Schreiber, Mayim Bialik, Debra Messing Among 1,200 Industry Names Rejecting Israeli Film Boycott in New Open Letter: It ‘Advocates’ for the ‘Erasure of Art’

Liev Schreiber, Mayim Bialik, Debra Messing are among 1,200 signees of an open letter denouncing the call for a boycott of Israeli film institutions.

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Film workers for Palestine @filmworks4pal.bsky.social · last yr.

Breaking! Film workers across the globe are answering the call of our Palestinian colleagues, who urge the film industry to "do everything humanly possible" to end our complicity in Israel's genocide in Gaza. Film workers: Join the call, sign the pledge: filmworkersforpalestine.org #endingcomplicity

Multiple A-list filmmakers, including actors, are pictured, alongside headline text that says:

“BREAKING: In a historic declaration, 1,200+ film workers launch pledge to not work with Israeli film institutions implicated in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people.”

Film Worker Pledge to End Complicity:

“As filmmakers, actors, film industry workers, and institutions, we recognize the power of cinema to shape perceptions. In this urgent moment of crisis, where many of our governments are enabling the carnage in Gaza, we must do everything we can to address complicity in that unrelenting horror.

The world's highest court, the International Court of Justice, has ruled that there is a plausible risk of genocide in Gaza, and that Israel's occupation and apartheid against Palestinians are unlawful. Standing for equality, justice, and freedom for all people is a profound moral duty that none of us can ignore. So too, we must speak out now against the harm done to the Palestinian people.”

“We answer the call of Palestinian filmmakers, who have urged the international film industry to refuse silence, racism, and dehumanization, as well as to "do everything humanly possible" to end complicity in their oppression.
Inspired by Filmmakers United Against Apartheid who refused to screen their films in apartheid South Africa, we pledge not to screen films, appear at or otherwise work with Israeli film institutions-including festivals, cinemas, broadcasters and production companies-that are implicated* in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people.

*Examples of complicity include whitewashing or justifying genocide and apartheid, and/or partnering with the government committing them.”

Signed,

Adam Bakri / Adam McKay / Aimee Lou Wood / Aki Kaurismäki / Alana Hadid / Alex Winter / Alia Shawkat / Alyssa Milano / Amanda Seales / Ambika Mod / Angeliki Papoulia / Annemarie
Jacir / Arian Moayed / Asif Kapadia / Ava DuVernay / Ayo
Edebiri / Bassem Yousef / Beatrice Dalle / Benedict Wong / Boots Riley / Brian Cox / Brian Eno / Carice Van Houten / Caveh
Zahedi / Cherien Dabis / Crystal Moselle / Cynthia Nixon / Deborah Eisenberg / Debra Winger / Denise Gough / Emma
Seligman / Eric Cantona / Esther Acebo / Eyal Sivan / Fernando
Meirelles / Gael García Bernal / Gbenga Akinnagbe / Geeta
Gandbhir / Hannah Einbinder / Hany Abu Assad / Harriet Walter
/ Ilana Glazer / Indira Varma / James Wilson / Janicza Bravo / Javier Bardem / Joe Alwyn / Joel Kim Booster / Josh O'Connor
/ Joshua Oppenheimer / Julie Christie / Juliet Stevenson / Kathleen Chalfant / Ken Loach / Khalid Abdalla / Lena Headey
/ Liam Cunningham / Lolly Adefope / Lukas Dhont / Mahdi
Fleifel / Mai Masri / Marcia Cross / Mark Ruffalo / Maxine
Peake / May Calamawy / Melissa Barrera / Mike Leigh / Miriam Margolyes / Morgan Spector / Nan Goldin / Natasha Rothwell / Olivia Colman / Olivia Williams / Paapa Essiedu / Paul Laverty
/ Peter Kosminsky / Peter Mullan / Poppy Liu / Rebecca Hall
/ Rebecca O'Brien / Richard Eyre / Riz Ahmed / Rob Delaney / Robyn Slovo / Ronan Bennett / Saleh Bakri / Samuel West
/ Sara Driver / Seamus McGarvey / Shirin Neshat / Susan
Sarandon / Swann Arlaud / Taraneh Alidoosti / Tatiana Maslany
/ Terence Nance / Tilda Swinton / Tobias Menzies / Tracey
Seaward / Tunde Adebimpe / Wallace Shawn / Xavier Dolan / Yorgos Lanthimos / Zawe Ashton... among many, many others.

To join the pledge and see the full list of signatories, go to filmworkersforpalestine.org

Film workers for Palestine @filmworks4pal.bsky.social · 2y ago

The call to Strike Berlinale is still in place and has now been endorsed by @bdsmovement.bsky.social. Read our latest update as well as the original statement from @filmworks4pal.bsky.social and Strike Germany at filmworkersforpalestine.org#strikeberlin...

Film Workers for Palestine

The events of the last edition of Berlinale in February 2024 have caused widespread alarm among film workers worldwide.

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Film workers for Palestine @filmworks4pal.bsky.social · 2y ago

As Disney & Marvel ramp up their campaign for the next Captain America film, it's important to fight back against their complicity in anti-Palestinian racism. We will NOT be seeing Captain America: Brave New World or Snow White. Read more & sign the pledge here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/e8...

Boycott Captain America: Brave New World and Snow White!

We call on moviegoers around the world to join us in boycotting all screenings of Marvel's Captain America: Brave New World and Disney's Snow White remake. By doing so, we will be sending these compan...

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Anthony Kaufman @antkaufman.bsky.social · 2y ago

Where are the Palestinian stories? www.documentary.org/online-featu...

Film workers for Palestine @filmworks4pal.bsky.social · 2y ago

Palestine Film Institute’s free "Film of the week" program features AYOUNI by Yasmin Fedda (2020). Filmed over 6 years, Avouni is an attempt to give numbers faces, to give silence a voice, and to make the invisible undeniably visible. With subtitles in 7 languages www.palestinefilminstitute.org

Palestine Film Institute

For the development, promotion, and preservation of Palestine's cinema.

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Film workers for Palestine @filmworks4pal.bsky.social · 2y ago

Palestine’s entry to the Academy Awards, the Oscar-shortlisted FROM GROUND ZERO is still playing in NYC. Don’t miss the chance to see this amazing anthology: a rich diversity of stories that reflect the sorrow, joy and hope inherent in Gazan life quadcinema.com/film/from-gr...

From Ground Zero — Quad Cinema

Established in 1972, Quad Cinema is New York's original multi-screen cinema.

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Film workers for Palestine @filmworks4pal.bsky.social · 2y ago

As we celebrate the small relief of the ceasefire, our work for Palestinian liberation and the end to the genocide continues. We will not rest until Palestine is free. #fromtherivertothesea #palestinewillbefree

“UNTIL PALESTINE IS FREE” is written in bold typeface over a photo of a Keffiyeh spread out on the ground with white flowers laid on top