Amid Matisyahu Storm, Israeli Filmmaker Rejected From Oslo Festival Over Israel Boycott

Decision draws surprise opposition from founder of BDS movement, says cultural boycott should target ‘institutions, not individuals.’

Ha’aretz

A film by Roy Zafrani, an Israeli filmmaker, was rejected from an Oslo film festival because it dealt with Israeli subject matter but did not address the Palestinians.

The film, “Other Dreamers,” is about disabled children in Tel Aviv. The film was rejected last week from the Human Rights Human Wrongs festival, which screens political documentaries, according to the New York Times, because it concerned Israel but did not deal directly with Israel’s occupation of the West Bank or discrimination against Palestinians.