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900 top film figures denounce Gaza killings, failure to speak up

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May 24, 2025

France's Catherine Deneuve has joined over 900 cinema figures who have signed an open letter denouncing alleged "genocide" in Gaza and the movie industry's failure to speak up about it, organisers told reporters on Friday.

The petition began circulating during the buildup to the Cannes film festival and had garnered around 380 names including “Schindler's List" star Ralph Fiennes when the event kicked off on May 13.

An update issued by organisers on Friday included more than 900 names, including Deneuve, British director Danny Boyle and Swedish actor Gustaf Skarsgard.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who is in Cannes to promote a documentary about his life, has also signed the letter, organisers said on Friday.

He posed for photographers on Tuesday with a T-shirt bearing the names of killed Gaza children.

The initiative, called “Artists for Fatem,” was sparked by the killing of Palestinian photojournalist Fatima (“Fatem") Hassouna, who was the subject of a documentary that premiered at Cannes week.

Hassouna, 25, was killed in an Israeli air strike along with IO relatives in her family home in northern Gaza last month, the day after the documentary was announced as part of the ACID Cannes selection.

“As artists and cultural players, we cannot remain silent while genocide is taking place in Gaza and this unspeakable news is hitting our communities hard,” the open letter says.

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