{"id":303218,"date":"2026-02-21T18:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T18:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/303218\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T18:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T18:13:09","slug":"berlinale-2026-the-director-of-the-voice-of-hind-rajab-does-not-accept-the-award-in-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/303218\/","title":{"rendered":"Berlinale 2026, the director of \u201cThe Voice of Hind Rajab\u201d does not accept the award in protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img width=\"820\" height=\"712\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Kaouther-Ben-Hania-rit-820x712.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania did not accept the \u201cMost Valuable Film\u201d award given to her film, \u201cThe Voice of Hind Rajab,\u201d as a gesture of protest and condemnation of the presence of Noam Tibon, a retired Israeli major general and protagonist of the Canadian documentary about October 7, The Road Between Us, which won an award at the Toronto Film Festival.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat happened to Hind is not an exception. It is part of a genocide,\u201d said the director. \u201cTonight in Berlin, there are people who have given political cover to that genocide by reframing the mass killing of civilians as self-defense, as complex circumstances. Denigrating those who protest. Tonight, I will not take this award home. I will leave it here as a reminder. And when peace is pursued as a legal and moral obligation, rooted in responsibility for genocide, then I will return and accept it with joy,\u201d she concluded.<\/p>\n<p>Kaouther Ben Hania\u2019s sensational gesture came after two other episodes of protest: Indian writer Arundhati Roy declared that \u201cart cannot remain silent about genocide\u201d and announced that she would not attend the Berlin Film Festival after jury president Wim Wenders argued that cinema should \u201cstay out of politics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His tough stance was followed by an open letter signed by more than 80 directors and actors, including Javier Bardem and Tilda Swinton, condemning the Berlin International Film Festival for its \u201cinstitutional silence\u201d on the genocide in the Gaza Strip and for its complicity with Israel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania did not accept the \u201cMost Valuable Film\u201d award given to her film, \u201cThe&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[138346,146,50,85,46,85671],"class_list":["post-303218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-berlinale","tag-entertainment","tag-gaza","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-kaouther-ben-hania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}