Venice Festival 2025, from Emanuela Fanelli to Benedetta Porcaroli, the actors on march for Palestine: “Being here is necessary”

“Being here is necessary.” Donatella Finocchiaro collects the point of view of colleagues who chose to parade this afternoon at Lido. Emanuela Fanelli, godmother of the exhibition, Michele Riondino who landed at the Excelsior with the Palestinian flag highlighted on the smartphoneBenedetta Porcaroli, marching with the Gaza shirt. And then Tecla Insolia and Lorenzo Zebetti, who recalled how important it is that cinema sides. Also seen Ottavia Piccolo, who has chosen to live at the Lido and Zerocalcare. «It is not very not to remember that someone on the other side of the sea is waking up and is about to die. It is our duty to do it, even in front of the cameras ». Loredana Cannata also arrived from Rome who claimed the duty to take a position. “One day- he said- the story will ask us to account.” With them the director Carolina Cavalli, Valentina Bellè, the director and screenwriter Margherita Ferri and the director Laura Poitras. A procession of families, elderly people, ordinary people, civil society. And an appeal that rises while Venice is in the spotlight of the world. “Venice knows which side to be on.” And the participants in the “Palestine Libera – Stop to the genocide” event know that he crossed the Lido this afternoon by passing, according to the organizers the 10 thousand people, while sources of the police headquarters, as reported by Adnkronos, estimate in about 5 thousand presences.

The appointment saw the Radno of the demonstrators at the pier of Santa Maria Elisabettawhere, as expected, a motor ship of activists and supporters of the Palestinian cause has arrived. The water procession, which saw the participation of about 800 people, was only a prelude to the long march that crossed the Gran Viale, Lungomare Marconi, via Marcello and via Dardanelli. A path agreed with the police headquarters with the espresso intention of excluding the Palazzo del Cinema and not interfere with the performance of the event, even if a group of activists has circumvented the cord, reaching the sketch to bring the Pro Palestine appeal right under the red carpet. However, the action ended peacefully with a Palestinian flag that swayed in the evening air. «It is an immense satisfaction that we express- explained in the end Stella Faye, one of the coordinators of the event- the response of civil society went well beyond the most rosy expectations. And thanks to the well -known faces of cinema who wanted to support our commitment by parading with us ».