Canadian-Jewish filmmaker slams TIFF’s spotlight on Tel Aviv

Elle Flanders speaks out about the Toronto Film Festival’s choice of Tel Aviv for their City to City programming. Flanders is a Toronto-based filmmaker who grew up in Israel. Her work focuses on the Israel and Palestine, and includes the award-winning ‘Zero Degrees of Separation’, a feature documentary about gay and lesbian Israelis and Palestinians in cross-border relationships. She has recently returned to Toronto after a year spent living in Ramallah.

Flanders was speaking at an event called ‘Celebrating solidarity: A different spotlight.’

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