The Jewish community in France has made a request to exclude a Palestine film which will be screened outside the competition from that program. The Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions (CRIF), the umbrella organization of the Jewish communities in France, is trying to hinder the screening of "Munich: A Palestinian Story" by director Nasri Hajjaj because the film focuses on the killing of 11 Israeli athletes by a group of Palestinian extremists during the 1972 Olympics in Munich.
However, this incident is still unsolved amid claims that the German police was the responsible from the attack. According to the official statement released from the CRIF's website, CRIF president Roger Cukierman wrote an open letter to Pierre Lescure, the president of the Cannes Film Festival and Audrey Azoulay, the French Minister of Culture, about their concerns over the screening of the controversial film because the Hajjaj film portrays the Palestinian group as freedom fighters.
Cukierman also claimed that the film shows the German police as the responsible party for the killings and the screening will cause a "scandal." Directed by Nasri Hajjaj, "Munich: A Palestinian Story" is part of a partnership between the Cannes Film Festival, which is one of the most important events in cinema, and the Dubai International Film Festival. For the first time this year, the Dubai festival sent a selection of Arab films, including the one about Munich, to Cannes's Le Marche du Film, a platform for international cinema that takes place alongside Cannes.
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