GOA: Three other jury members of the International Film Festival of India (IFFI), Goa have come forward in support of Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid, whose comments terming ‘The Kashmir Files’ as “vulgar” and “propaganda” led to a row in India and abroad.
A statement posted on Twitter by jury member Jinko Gotoh, along with Pascale Chavance and Javier Angulo Barturen as undersigned, said the entire jury knew — and agreed with — what Mr Lapid said as jury chief.
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— Jinko Gotoh (@JinkoGotoh) December 2, 2022
The Israeli screenwriter and film director Nadav Lapid had triggered a storm throughout India after calling its propaganda movie “The Kashmir Files” as “vulgar.” Nadav, naming The Kashmir Files at the closing ceremony of the festival in Goa on Monday had said, “all of us were disturbed and shocked by the 15th film, The Kashmir Files. That felt like a propaganda, vulgar movie, inappropriate for an artistic competitive section of such a prestigious film festival.”
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The statement given by three fellow jurors reads “at the festival’s closing ceremony, Nadav Lapid, the jury’s president, made a statement on behalf of the jury members stating: ‘We were all of disturbed and shocked by the 15th film, The Kashmir Files, that felt to us like a vulgar propaganda movie, inappropriate for an artistic competitive section of such a prestigious film festival.’ We stand by his statement.”
