Round Table. The Emergence of Anti-Zionist Cinema

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The conversation will revolve around Anti-Zionist cinema, from the Soviet film Secret and Explicit (The Aims and Acts of Zionists), created in 1973; to 200 meters, which became the Jordanian entry for the Academy Awards; to An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation, released by the leading Israeli documentary filmmaker Avi Mograbi and only recently screened at the Berlin Film Festival.

We are going to discuss how Anti-Zionism transforms into Antisemitism and vice versa and what techniques film authors use for persuasiveness in their search for audience sympathy. What do these films teach us? Are they worth watching at all?

Additional information about the speakers: Alexander Kargin is a public figure and political writer, Program director at the Moscow Choral Synagogue. Dmitry Maryasis is an Orientalist and expert on modern Israel’s economics and politics. Timofey Dzyadko is a journalist, editor at RBC, former co-host of Dzyadko 3 program on TV Dozhd. Abbas Juma is a Russian international journalist of Syrian origin. Dmitry Levner is an Orientalist, expert on Arab studies, Regional manager at ABBYY — Middle East and Africa.