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Russian Pavilion at Venice Art Biennale Scrapped as Festivals Weigh Response to Boycott Calls

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Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentDue to the invasion of Ukraine, the Russian pavilion at the upcoming Biennale arts exhibition in Venice has been scrapped, as the Venice Film Festival continues to mull its response to calls for a boycott of Russian movies at the event’s 77th edition.Meanwhile, the Locarno Film Festival said on Monday that it will certainly be showing Russian films at its upcoming edition in August.Kicking off in April, the Venice Biennale, which is the multidisciplinary arts organization behind the Venice Film Festival, expressed solidarity with Russian visual artists Alexandra Sukhareva and Kirill Savchenkov and the exhibition’s curator Raimundas Malašauskas, who on Sunday announced they were pulling out of the art show on their own initiative because “this war is politically and humanly intolerable,” as Malašauskas put it in a statement. “La Biennale expresses its complete solidarity for this noble act of courage and stands beside the motivations that have led to this decision, which dramatically epitomize the tragedy that has beset the entire population of Ukraine,” the Venice org said in a statement.However, for the moment, Venice is not taking a stance in response to calls from the Ukrainian Film Academy to bar Russian-made or co-produced movies in solidarity with the Ukrainian people, a Biennale spokesman said on Monday.Both Venice and Cannes are understood to be mulling their position as they wait for the European Union in Brussels to hammer out an expected directive pertaining to a pan-European cultural boycott of Russia.The Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland, which is not a EU member, issued a clear cut statement on Monday declaring they are not planning a boycott.“The Locarno Film.

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