A row has erupted in India after an Israeli director described a controversial film about Kashmir as propaganda and a “vulgar movie”, prompting the Israeli ambassador to issue an apology. Nadav Lapid pictured at last year’s Cannes film festival, receiving the jury prize for his film Ahed’s Knee. Photograph: Catarina+Perusseau/REX/ShutterstockSpeaking at the closing ceremony of the film festival, Lapid said he and other jury members had been “shocked and disturbed” that the film had been given a platform. The Kashmir Files, said Lapid, was “a propaganda, vulgar movie, inappropriate for an artistic competitive section of such a prestigious film festival”. “For the longest time, people even denied the Holocaust and called Schindler’s List propaganda, just like some are doing to Kashmir Files,” he said.

Source: The Guardian November 29, 2022 22:59 UTC