TIMES OF ISRAEL
by Renee Ghert-Zand
October 9, 2014
‘Dancing in Jaffa’ director Hilla Medalia says she feared for her safety amid anti-Israel protest, police told her they couldn’t do anything. Award-winning Israeli filmmaker Hilla Medalia is used to her films provoking heated discussion and debate, but she had never before experienced what happened at a screening of her film “Dancing in Jaffa,” at an Israeli film festival in Carpentras, France on October 6.
Just as Medalia and Israeli Consul General in Marseille Barnea Hassid finished making introductory remarks, some twenty audience members stood up and began shouting anti-Israel slogans. Then they threw stink bombs. “The police had to remove them by force,” Medalia told The Times of Israel upon her return to Israel on October 8.
The screening of the acclaimed film about Pierre Dulaine, four-time ballroom dancing world champion, returning to his hometown of Jaffa to bring Jewish and Palestinian children together through dance, was moved to another of the theater’s auditoriums…..
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