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Addie Morfoot Contributor The 20th edition of the Camden Intl. Film Festival, kicking off Sept. 12, features a lineup full of political, hot button documentaries fresh off showings at Toronto, Venice and Telluride.

Primal Scream have collaborated on a new shirt design for a Palestinian refugee football team, based on their classic album ‘Screamadelica’.Frontman Bobby Gillespie confirmed the news in an Instagram video today (August 8), explaining that the team Lajee Celtic, who are a refugee club based in the Aida Camp in Bethlehem in Palestine’s West Bank.The shirt has been designed in conjunction with clothing brand A Number Of Names, as well as The Green Brigade, a supporters group for Celtic FC, the club which Gillespie supports.“The camp has lived under the rule of Israeli military occupation since 1947,” Gillespie says in the video. “Yet despite these abominable conditions, the people of the camp find joyful resistance in the game of football.”A post shared by Primal Scream (@primalscreamofficial)“Football, the universal, democratic sport.

Fontaines D.C. have cancelled a planned gig in Istanbul in solidarity with Palestine, saying: “we must be clear in our convictions.”The band were due to play the Zorlu PSM venue in Istanbul on August 20, but after speaking to “Palestinian artists and human rights activists”, the band have decided to cancel their planned show with full refunds being available to fans who bought tickets.The band cited the “global Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement” who have been calling on artists to refuse to play the venue after claiming that Zorlu Energy part owns a plant that supplies five to eight per cent of Israel’s energy.In a post on their Instagram Stories, Fontaines D.C.

Dave Matthews was part of a sizeable organised protest against the appearance by Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the United States Congress this week.Crowds gathered on Capitol Hill outside the government building on Wednesday (July 24), holding banners including slogans such as “Wanted War Criminal”, as the Israeli leader addressed members of the Senate and the House Of Representatives.While Netanyahu implored US leaders to support the war against Hamas in Gaza, the protesters outside argued that Netanyahu himself is a war criminal, citing the arrest warrant that has been sought by the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.Among those picketing was Matthews, who told Al Jazeera: “I just think it’s terrible when the majority of the world is looking at this man and what he’s doing in Gaza and then also what he’s overseeing in the West Bank and East Jerusalem [and] we’re welcoming [him] into the so-called sacred halls of our government.”He added: “This man is the pinnacle of the obstacle toward that freedom and that we have [him] visiting the country is obscene. It’s a disgusting show of support for someone that doesn’t deserve our support.”The current war escalated on October 7 last year when Hamas launched a terrorist attack on a music festival in Israel, killing over 1,200 and taking 250 others as hostages.

Zack Sharf Digital News Director Dave Matthews spoke to Al Jazeera while joining thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters in Washington D.C. on July 24 and said he is “disgusted” by support in Congress for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Matthews added that he is “ashamed” that U.S.

for supporting Palestine in the midst of the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.The 85-year-old actor called Jolie, 49, “ignorant” and “naive” in an interview with Variety published Tuesday.“She has been exposed to propaganda,” said Voight. “She’s been influenced by antisemitic people.

Paolo Nutini will take to the stage of Paisley Town Hall on Tuesday, August 6, for a very special gig in aid of two charities.

CNN has named Jeremy Diamond as international correspondent based in Jerusalem.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Palestinian-Canadian rapper Belly has surprise-dropped a new album titled “96 Miles From Bethlehem,” which is described as being about “the gift, curse, and fate of being Palestinian” but is clearly inspired by the war in Gaza. The 40-year-old artist, whose real name is Ahmad Balshe, was born in the Palestinian city of Jenin in the Israeli-occupied West Bank — which is located 96 miles from Bethlehem, as the album’s title says — but relocated to Canada with his family when he was 7.

Murtada Elfadl “No Other Land,” a documentary about the resistance of Palestinian activists against forced displacement and settler expansion in the West Bank community of Masafer Yatta, won the Millennium Docs Against Gravity grand prize in the main competition. The jury, comprised of the writer of this article Variety critic Murtada Elfadl, Anna Hints, director of “Smoke Sauna Sisterhood,” and Lauren Greenfield, director of “The Queen of Versailles,” cited its “power in crystallizing grave injustice into a story of friendship and how hope can thrive only when everyone has freedom.” The filmmakers – the Palestinian and Israeli collective of Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor – could not attend the closing ceremony because of the political situation and the award was accepted on their behalf by the ambassador of the Palestinian Authority in Poland.

Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania’s  Four Daughters and Sudanese director Mohamed Kordofani’s drama Goodbye Julia topped the prizes at the 8th Critics Awards for Arab Films, which were announced on the fringes of the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday.

Isobel Yeung is joining CNN as an international correspondent in the network’s London bureau.

Voters in Cheshire have gone to the polls for the Halton 2024 local elections.

Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania’s Oscar-nominated documentary Four Daughters and Sudanese director Mohamed Kordofani’s Lupita Nyong’o-EPed drama Goodbye Julia lead the nominations in the eighth edition of the Critics Awards for Arab Films.

Variety‘s 2024 Legal Impact Report. For editorial questions, please contact Sharareh Drury at sdrury@variety.com. Spicer: Partner and Head of Media & Entertainment PracticeGriffith, Miller, Roman: PartnersThe four Century City attorneys worked $2 billion in transactions in the past year.

Channel 4 have issued a statement on Rachel Riley's future after fans called for the Countdown presenter to be sacked following an 'offensive tweet'.

The Flats, a film about The Troubles in Northern Ireland, won the top award at CPH:DOX in Copenhagen at a Friday night, earning a €10,000 prize. 

When director Amber Fares came out with her documentary Speed Sisters, about the Middle East’s first all-women race car driving team, the New York Times praised it as “unconventional in form as well as content.”

Charlotte Church has defended her actions after receiving criticism for leading a controversial pro-Palestinian chant at a recent charity live event.On Saturday (February 24), Church played at Bedwas Workmen’s Hall in Caerphilly at a concert to raise money for the Middle East Children’s Alliance, which supports children in Gaza. To end the show, she led a choir of 100 singers in a chant of “from the river to the sea”.That phrase is politically charged, with some, including the Campaign Against Antisemitism, believing that it calls for the destruction of the state of Israel.

Guy Lodge Film Critic It is any parent’s hope that their children won’t inherit their battles, or at the very least, that they can pass the generational baton with some ground gained. For young Palestinian lawyer and activist Basel Adra, a West Bank native who grew up watching his activist parents fight to protect their land from Israeli occupiers, there has been no such progress: Time has stood dispiritingly still as he has aged into his elders’ shoes.

Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent The arid area of the West Bank known as Masafer Yatta, which in the 1990s was designated as a live-fire training zone where the Israeli military exercises full control, is home to Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist who has been fighting the mass expulsion of his community by the Israeli authorities since childhood. “No Other Land,” which screens in Berlin’s Panorama section, documents the gradual demolition of houses and entire villages by the military in the region using bulldozers. The documentary was made by a Palestinian-Israeli collective of four young activists: Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor and Adra.