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Thousands of protesters, led by cinema figures, cry out for Gaza in San Sebastián | Cinema: premieres and criticism

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Thousands of protesters have gathered on Wednesday afternoon at the Boulevard of San Sebastián in support of Palestine, in an act to which the world of cinema has joined in mass. The concentration has begun at the exit of the official pass of Hind’s voice In the Victoria Eugenia Theater, to which the Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, who has also joined the protest, has also attended. Next to him, the director of the contest, José Luis Rebordinos, and filmmakers such as Isaki Lacuesta, Helena Taberna, Inés Paris, Daniel Fejerman, Julio Medem, Itiziar iTuño or Fermín Muguruza. The demonstration has traveled the Paseo de la Zurriola, the beach of the neighborhood of Gros where the Kursaal is located.

The projection Hind’s voice He has ended between applause and tears of the audience, in one of the most exciting acts of this edition of Zinemaldia, because in Victoria Eugenia were Motaz Malhees and Saja Tlani, the Palestinian actors who star in the Kaouther Ben Hania movie. Hind’s voice It takes place during January 29, 2024, when in a service station north of Gaza, the car where the Hamada family was traveling was riddled by the Israeli troops. Only the youngest traveler, Hind Rajab, survived, who responded to the phone when the relief services called. The attempt to save her while, online, the red crescent tried to reassure her, was unsuccessful: there is the heart of the film, created with the recordings. Hind says he sees tanks, that he is getting dark and is afraid. “He comes to pick me up,” begs again and again. They could never get to her, and Hind died.

In the head of the demonstration, the Branch have sustained the directors Lacuesta and Medem, the actors Arturo Valls and Nerea Barros and Palestinians in exile.

(News in development. There will be extension)

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