Eran Riklis, who, as a producer, cast Indian actor Freida Pinto in Miral (2010), says the artistic community in Israel is 90 per cent left-wing or centre-left, there is a lot of anger and frustration today because the government didn t take responsibility.
Sudipto Sen, the lone Indian in the jury board of the just-concluded International Film Festival of India, Saturday maintained that the remarks made by Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid about The Kashmir Files were his personal opinion even as three other co-jurors came out in support of the jury head.
Gilon's remarks, in an open letter to Lapid, came after the jury head of the 53rd International Film Festival of India (IFFI) described 'The Kashmir Files' as "propaganda" and "vulgar"