Award-winning Indian writer Arundhati Roy has said she is withdrawing from the Berlin Film Festival over jury president Wim Wenders’ comments that cinema should “stay out of politics” when asked about Gaza.
Roy said in a statement on Friday that she was “shocked and disgusted” by responses from Wenders and other jury members to a question about the Palestinian territory at a press conference the day before.
Roy, whose novel The God of Small Things won the 1997 Booker Prize, had been announced as…
Indian author Arundhati Roy quits Berlinale after ‘stay out of politics’ Gaza comments
