Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters, Nobel Prize Winner Annie Ernaux and More Sign Open Letter Calling for Venice Film Festival to Take ‘Concrete Action’ in Support of Palestine

By Nick Vivarelli

Nick Vivarelli

International Correspondent

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Nobel Prize-winning writer Annie Ernaux, Pink Floyd co-founder Roger Waters and directors Isabel Coixet and Matteo Garrone are among signatories of an open letter issued on Friday calling for the Venice Film Festival “to take concrete action in support of Palestine.”

The open letter comes from the Venice4Palestine collective that took a similar initiative last year, albeit with more specific requests such as urging the event’s organizers to withdraw invitations to Gerard Butler and Gal Gadot over their previous support for Israel.

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