Indian-American filmmaker Suneil Sanzgiri was set to showcase his film about anti-colonial resistance against the Portuguese empire at this month's Berlinale film festival but dropped out. Announcing his boycott on Instagram, Sanzgiri accused the German authorities of silencing voices speaking out for Palestinians in the war in Gaza. The withdrawals showed the tricky waters Germany's cultural institutions are navigating, caught between protecting artistic freedoms while recognising what many Germans see as a historic responsibility for Israel after the Nazi Holocaust.
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