Anti-opinion
I got a message, Hola Irati, with the custom headboard. (Irati, dear, writes in German in the header of a message) I started with a warning: “Beforehand, this is a long message,” and it was quickly explained that it was a request for solidarity sent to many people. The filmmakers at Moviano needed good people to help them spread tea and cookies, as well as their willingness to listen to what people had to say about a controversial issue, to create an atmosphere of dialogue. Below was an explanation of the “complicated and yet absurd” situation that arose around a performance.
I've known the couple who run the oldest cinema in Germany for a long time; with one of them, I learned to film 35mm films. Furthermore, on two occasions we have held the Basque film festival in Berlin there, so I was not the only Basque who opened up a space on the agenda to show solidarity.
An intelligent reader would have imagined that the conflict between the supporters of refugees and those of the extreme right was going to be related. A clash between human rights defenders and their opponents. Conflict between enlargement or border closure. Those who see the crisis as the potential of a revolution or opponents of Western Islamization. Is that not the whole issue? Yes, yes. What about Movieiro distributing tea and cookies?
No, we will remember that the situation had an absurd point. As a summary requires, leaving aside some details: An Israeli filmmaker rented the large room to première his documental.Shitstorma on the net, calls to the movies, calls to the characters on the mobile phone. And saying, “You are an anti-Semitic film if you do not cancel the function.” The callers hadn't seen the movie and didn't want to see it. The protagonist of the documentary is critical of Israel’s okupation policy, a young woman who demonstrated weekly with the Palestinians. In addition, the director invited the premiere to the activist group (BDS) that convenes the boycott against Israel, even though the two movie owners are opposed to it. The filmmakers did not submit to threats, so they called for a demonstration under the slogan Stop BDS - unconditional solidarity with Israel. But who, the smart reader will ask? Please note: They are known as anti-Germans, they have the official name of Zionist antifascists and they are the pro-Israeli group on the left. They did not want tea or cookies, although these were koscher (clean food according to Jewish belief). Koscher? No, none of that! But by then the demonstration against counter-amanifa (spontaneously convened by the FOR Palestine Group) caught us on the other side and in the middle holding a plate full of crackers became a stupid strategy.
I don't know if you've ever tried to explain the political conflict in Euskal Herria outside of us. And the results you've got. The intern dominates the terms, the arguments, the relationships of force. Seen from the outside, everything becomes very complicated and absurd. I don't know if you, at least I, feel alien on most of the controversial issues. More and more. There are very few things, very essential, which I have clear. I don't know what I do by writing in the Opinion section.
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