"movies can change the world but not in a political way. He added that film-makers have to stay out of politics because if we make movies that are dedicatedly political, we enter the field of politics. But we are the counterweight of politics, we are the opposite of politics. We have to do the work of people, not the work of politicians."
"To hear them say that art should not be political is jaw-dropping. It is a way of shutting down a conversation about a crime against humanity even as it unfolds before us in real time when artists, writers and film-makers should be doing everything in their power to stop it."
"Although I have been profoundly disturbed by the positions taken by the German government and various German cultural institutions on Palestine, I have always received political solidarity when I have spoken to German audiences about my views on the genocide in Gaza."
Arundhati Roy withdrew from the Berlinale following comments by the festival jury president that film-makers must stay out of politics. The jury president said movies can change the world but not in a political way and described film-makers as a counterweight to politics rather than political actors. Roy called those comments unconscionable and argued that excluding political art shuts down conversation about a crime against humanity unfolding in Gaza. Roy had planned to attend a screening of her restored 1989 film In Which Annie Gives It Those Ones and said she has received political solidarity from German audiences.
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