Israeli Film Council Calls For Festivals To Be Removed From Funding Criteria & Creation Of Strand For Films Celebrating Israeli Soldiers Amid ‘Naza’ Firestorm

Deadline - Sep 17, 2026

The Israeli Film Council has called for film festivals to be eliminated from a points system used to set film fund budgets in the wake of the Venice Film Festival’s selection of bombshell documentary Naza exposing Israel’s deliberate targeting of civilian targets in Gaza. At the same time, it has also recommended a new state […]

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