‘Coexistence, My Ass!’ Wins Top Award At Thessaloniki Int’l Documentary Festival; ‘Free Leonard Peltier’ Earns Three Awards – Winners List
deadline.comCoexistence, My Ass!, a film about Israeli comedian Noam Shuster-Eliassi who dares to advocate for peaceful coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians, won the Golden Alexander Sunday at the Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival, TiDF’s top award.
Shuster-Eliassi attended the awards ceremony in the Greek port city, along with director Amber Fares and fellow members of the production.
The comedian, whose one-woman show became the basis for the documentary, acknowledged her parents who were on hand for the event. “My first political teacher, my father, is up there [in the balcony].
The first memory I have of my father is him going in and out of Israeli military prison for refusing to serve in the occupied Palestinian Territories,” Shuster-Eliassi noted. “Our activism and how we demonstrate equality, and freedom, and liberation is not just in one protest or one activity or one thing or one joke.
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