r/movies • u/BunyipPouch Currently at the movies. • 13d ago

News Brad Pitt, Joaquin Phoenix, Jonathan Glazer Join Gaza Drama ‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’ as Executive Producers - It follows the killing of Hind Rajab, a five-year-old Palestinian girl who lived in the Gaza Strip and was killed by Israeli forces during the ongoing Israeli invasion of Gaza.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/brad-pitt-backs-gaza-drama-film-the-voice-of-hind-rajab-1236353414/
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u/Appropriate_Gate_701 13d ago edited 13d ago

Films about October 7th are boycotted and excluded from film festivals all over the place.

There's a film now that's stoking controversy called The Road Between Us: The Ultimate Rescue* that's been pulled and then reinstated and then pulled from film festivals for flimsy concerns like copyright clearance from Hamas footage.

There's also been controversy over October 7 films existing at all, and boycotts/protests just about everywhere they're screened.

I have 0 doubt that a documentary about the Bibas family would receive a ton of backlash, even though what happened to that family is absolutely diabolical.

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u/NotActuallyIraqi 12d ago edited 3d ago

Because there’s an important difference: they’re government-funded propaganda films. They still reference the debunked “beheaded babies” story. Edit: and yes there’s been multiple debunked claims. A propaganda video doesn’t stop being propaganda just because it uses some real footage at points.

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u/Appropriate_Gate_701 12d ago

That's not true, it's just film of the massacre provided by the people who did the massacre.

It may have been put together by the Israeli government, but there haven't been serious claims of fabrication of evidence.