"The Toronto International Film Festival red carpet served as a backdrop for a protest calling for the end of the violence, death and destruction in Gaza on Friday at the world premiere of film that takes the audience back to the 1930s before the creation of the state of Israel, when the territory, then known as British Palestine, was under British colonial rule."
"Palestine 36 screened at TIFF on Friday at Roy Thomson Hall, where the film's star, Karim Daoud Anaya, posed with a plastic bag, dripping in fake blood, containing a camera and a Palestinian keffiyeh. Other members of the cast and crew held up Palestinian flags and messages reading "Stop the genocide" at the premiere, which took pace exactly 700 days after the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas-led militant attack on Israel that preceded the ongoing Israeli military assault on Gaza."
"A rare look into the past Palestinian filmmaker Annemarie Jacir, who directed the drama, told CBC News she leaned heavily on rare archive footage from the 1930s to depict the lives of Palestinians at the time. She said it was "critical" to use the footage which she colourized because she didn't want the movie "to be something of the past" to show that the struggle for Palestinian sovereignty is "still going on.""
A protest at the Toronto International Film Festival red carpet called for an end to violence, death and destruction in Gaza during the world premiere of Palestine 36. The film returns to 1930s British Palestine and follows Yusuf and other Palestinians navigating life amid an uprising against British colonial rule after the First World War. Karim Daoud Anaya posed with a fake-blood-dripping plastic bag holding a camera and a Palestinian keffiyeh, while cast and crew displayed Palestinian flags and messages such as "Stop the genocide." The film features Jeremy Irons, Hiam Abbas and Liam Cunningham, was shot in the Middle East, took eight years to make, and uses colorized 1930s archive footage to link past struggles to present calls for Palestinian sovereignty.
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