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Some 50 celebrities, artists and filmmakers, including actors Jane Fonda and Danny Glover, musician David Byrne and filmmaker Ken Loach, have accused the Toronto International Film Festival of “complicity with the Israeli propaganda machine” over its spotlight this year on Tel Aviv.
Among the films being screened are Danny Lerner’s Kirot, Keren Yedaya’s Jaffa, Uri Zohar’s Big Eyes and Eytan Fox’s The Bubble, films which Jerusalem Post film critic Hannah Brown says shows Israel society, warts and all.