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Fatima Hassouna(Dok. Instagram @fatma_hassona2)
TOKOH-tokoh ternama Hollywood mulai dari Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Riz Ahmed dan Guillermo del Toro telah menandatangani surat yang mengecam tindakan genosida yang terjadi di Gaza.
Petisi yang ditandatangani oleh lebih dari 370 aktor dan pembuat film itu juga mengecam pembunuhan Israel terhadap Fatima Hassouna, jurnalis foto muda Gaza yang ditampilkan dalam film dokumenter "Put Your Soul in Your Hand and Walk", yang ditayangkan perdana di festival film Cannes, pada Kamis (14/5).
Penyelenggara petisi tersebut mengatakan bahwa aktor Prancis Juliette Binoche, yang menjadi ketua juri di Cannes, juga menambahkan namanya dalam surat itu, bersama dengan Rooney Mara, sutradara indie AS Jim Jarmusch, dan bintang "Lupin" Omar Sy.
"Dia (Fatima) seharusnya ada di sini malam ini bersama kita," kata Binoche yang emosional pada upacara pembukaan Cannes, seperti dikutip dari situs AFP. Fatima tewas bersama 10 anggota keluarganya sehari setelah dia mengetahui filmnya akan ditayangkan di Cannes.
Protes yang semakin meluas itu terjadi setelah beberapa hari pertumpahan darah yang meningkat di wilayah Palestina yang terkepung, dengan 120 orang tewas pada hari Kamis dan 50 orang dilaporkan tewas sejak tengah malam.
Bintang "Schindler's List" Ralph Fiennes serta Richard Gere, Mark Ruffalo, Guy Pearce, Susan Sarandon, Javier Bardem, dan sutradara David Cronenberg, Pedro Almodovar, Alfonso Cuaron, Mike Leigh mengungkapkan bahwa mereka malu atas kegagalan industri mereka untuk berbicara tentang pengepungan Israel atas Gaza. Ungkapan mereka juga tertulis di surat tersebut.
Dalam pidatonya di Cannes, Selasa (13/5), Binoche juga membahas terkait sandera Israel yang disandera oleh kelompok Palestina Hamas dalam serangannya pada 7 Oktober 2023 terhadap Israel, yang memicu perang Gaza.
Sutradara "Sicko" dan "Bowling for Columbine" Michael Moore dan aktor Prancis Camille Cottin yang terkenal lewat "Call My Agent" juga menambahkan nama mereka pada petisi tersebut.
Isi Surat
Berikut adalah isi surat tersebut:
Fatma Hassouna was 25 years old.
She was a Palestinian freelance photojournalist. She was targeted by the Israeli army on 16 April 2025, the day after it was announced that Sepideh Farsi's film "Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk," in which she was the star, had been selected in the ACID section of the Cannes Film Festival.
She was about to get married.
Since the terrible massacres of 7 October 2023, no foreign journalist has been authorised to enter the Gaza Strip. The Israeli army is targeting civilians. More than 200 journalists have been deliberately killed. Writers, film-makers and artists are being brutally murdered.
At the end of March, Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal, who won an Oscar for his film "No Other Land," was brutally attacked by Israeli settlers and then kidnapped by the army, before being released under international pressure. The Oscar Academy's lack of support for Hamdan Ballal sparked outrage among its own members and it had to publicly apologize for its inaction.
We are ashamed of such passivity.
Why is it that cinema, a breeding ground for socially committed works, seems to be so indifferent to the horror of reality and the oppression suffered by our sisters and brothers?
As artists and cultural players, we cannot remain silent while genocide is taking place in Gaza and this unspeakable news is hitting our communities hard.
What is the point of our professions if not to draw lessons from history, to make films that are committed, if we are not present to protect oppressed voices?
Why this silence?
The far right, fascism, colonialism, anti-trans and anti-LGBTQIA+, sexist, racist, islamophobic and antisemitic movements are waging their battle on the battlefield of ideas, attacking publishing, cinema and universities, and that's why we have a duty to fight.
Let's refuse to let our art be an accomplice to the worst.
Let us rise up.
Let us name reality.
Let us collectively dare to look at it with the precision of our sensitive hearts, so that it can no longer be silenced and covered up.
Let us reject the propaganda that constantly colonizes our imaginations and makes us lose our sense of humanity.
For Fatma, for all those who die in indifference.
Cinema has a duty to carry their messages, to reflect our societies.
Let's act before it's too late.
(Nas/M-3)
