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In the context of an ongoing, widespread and multi-year refusal to participate in the Berlinale by film workers of conscience, Film Workers for Palestine cannot recommend that filmmakers submit their films or otherwise participate in a festival that has engaged in the types of anti-Palestinian and anti-Arab racism and censorship demonstrated in recent years.

The Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) calls for the boycott of Berlinale 2025 due to its complicity in Israel’s genocide against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza.

The conference centers the Israeli speakers as “experts” in the field of Islamic antiquities and sites and features primarily those who work for the deeply complicit Israel Antiquities Authority