Last week, nearly 4,000 entertainment industry names, including Hollywood stars like Emma Stone and Joaquin Phoenix , signed a petition calling for a boycott of Israeli film institutions “complicit in war crimes” in Gaza. At last night’s Emmy Awards, Javier Bardem called for a “commercial and diplomatic blockade and sanctions on Israel.” Yet, many of the members of the country’s left-leaning film and TV industry are rooting for peace and standing against the Israeli government at their own risk.

On Tuesday, the Israeli Academy of Film and Television — which brings together nearly 1,100 filmmakers, producers and actors — is expected to submit “ The Sea ,” a heart-wrenching drama about a Palestinian boy who risks his life to go to the beach for the first time in Tel Aviv, for the Osca

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