Arundhati Roy withdraws from Berlin Film Festival amid Gaza row

Her statement comes after jury president Wim Wenders’ response to a question on Gaza at a press conference, where he stated, “We cannot really enter the field of politics,” calling filmmakers “the counterweight to politics”

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