"German filmmaker Wim Wenders, who is the chair of the festival's seven-member jury, responded, saying that filmmakers have to stay out of politics. If we made movies that are dedicatedly political, we enter the field of politics. But we are the counterweight to politics. We are the opposite of politics. We have to do the work of people and not the work of politicians, Wenders said."
"It is a way of shutting down a conversation about a crime against humanity even as it unfolds before us in real time, wrote Roy, the author of novels and nonfiction, including The God of Small Things. I am shocked and disgusted, Roy wrote, adding that she believed artists, writers and filmmakers should be doing everything in their power to stop the war in Gaza."
Arundhati Roy withdrew from the Berlin International Film Festival in response to jury remarks that art should not be political. Roy described those remarks as unconscionable and said shutting down political conversation is a way of silencing a crime against humanity unfolding in real time. Roy called the violence in Gaza a genocide of the Palestinian people by the State of Israel and said governments including the United States and Germany that support and fund the war are complicit. Wim Wenders, chair of the festival jury, said filmmakers must stay out of politics and serve as a counterweight to politics rather than entering it.
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