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3mo ago

Nadav Lapid Withdraws From FID Marseille After Calls for Boycott

His decision highlights a growing tactic of cultural boycotts over Israeli funding and has prompted major open letters defending artistic pluralism and festival independence.

Après les cas de l’écrivain Joann Sfar et de la DJ Barbara Blutch, eux aussi ciblés par des groupes politiques, l’exemple de ce cinéaste n’est pas qu’un signe de plus d’un durcissement des positions : il révèle par l’absurde la hargne aveugle et stérile de ses contempteurs.
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Overview

  • Nadav Lapid, an Israeli filmmaker living in France, stepped down from participating at FID Marseille after a group of selected filmmakers pushed for his exclusion and several others withdrew their films from the program.
  • Festival director Tsveta Dobreva said the internal boycott led to roughly a dozen films pulling out of the roughly 120-title line-up and described Lapid’s self-withdrawal as a direct response to mounting pressure.
  • FID published a statement condemning the boycott as illegitimate and argued that singling out an artist for his nationality or a small public grant undermines spaces for dissenting voices.
  • Two high-profile open letters—one by leading directors including Michel Hazanavicius, Justine Triet and Jacques Audiard and another signed by about 350 cultural professionals—publicly denounced the exclusion and defended free artistic exchange.
  • The dispute centers on a modest Israeli public grant reported at about 12% of Lapid’s film budget and has fed a wider pattern of deprogrammings and festival fights over how programming, funding transparency and political protest should be handled.