Venice Festival 2025, Gal Gadot will not be at Lido and in perhaps also Gerard Butler

Gal Gadot will not participate in the Venice Film Festival and the presence of Gerard Butler It is still to be confirmed. Although the news has circulated in the past few hours In The Hand of Danteof which both actors are the protagonists directed by Julian Schnabel. TO Vanity Fair communicated that Gal Gadot had never been in the predicate to participate in the event for personal reasons and that On the participation of Gerard Butler there are still no certainties.

The collective Venice4Palestine (V4P) In fact, he had asked the Biennale concrete actions in favor of Palestine, including the withdrawal of the invitation to participate in the exhibitionreads the text, To those who “publicly and actively support the genocide”, in particular reference is made to Gerard Butler and Gal Gadot.

The support to Israel mentioned in the letter is linked to the photos of the The Israel Defense Forces (FIDF) Western Region Gala At The Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles and dates back to 2018, the date of the images that portray Butler together with many other Hollywood colleagues, including Al Pacino and Ashton Kutcher.

Here is the appeal of the collective, which has 1500 signatures, including those of the directors Marco Bellocchio, Ken Loach, Matteo Garrone and Mario Martone and of artists such as Anna Foglietta, Alba Rohrwacher and Carlo Verdone. Venice4palestine organized a procession for August 30th at the Lido of Venice: «The genocide is under the eyes of all. (…) When the eyes of the world will be focused on Venice and the Film Festival, we have a duty to make the voice of all the people who are indignant and rebel: then we point the spotlight of the exhibition on Palestine. We no longer want to feel powerless, Israel must be stopped! ».

The response of the Biennale It arrived through her press office that issued a note on the same day, on August 22 last: «Regarding your open letter received today on Palestine, we remember that the Venice Biennale and the international exhibition of cinematographic art have always been, in their history, open and sensitive places of comparison to all the most urgent issues of society and in the world. First of all, the works presented, and this happens this year with the film The Voice of Hind Rajab of director Kaouther Ben Hania, in competition, and happened last year with Of dogs and men by Dani Rosenberg, in horizons. Moreover, the words expressed on the topic by the President of the Biennale and the Director of the exhibition on 22 July at the presentation of the Venice program 82, as well as the declarations on the occasion of the opening of the 2025 Biennial and the Biennale Arte 2024, and the Lectio Magistralis of Luciano Violante’s Biennale should be remembered Domicideheld on June 17 at the Arsenale. Finally, the Biennale communicates that it is, as always, open to dialogue».