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

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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 civ…

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  • Reported by Deadline and published Thu, 17 Sep 2026 12:50:37 UTC.

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