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Screened at an international film festival in Goa, “The Kashmir Files” was billed as a “propaganda film” by the president of the jury, Israeli director Nadav Lapid. Provoking the ire of Indian authorities who are tightening their grip on cultural production.
An earthquake rocked India’s world of politics and art Monday night. Its center is in Goa (southwest), where the 53rd international film festival (IFFI) concluded. Nadav Lapid, Israeli director and president of the international competition jury, revealed, during the closing ceremony, the jury’s embarrassment with respect to one of the fifteen feature films selected: “We were all disturbed and shocked by the film Kashmir Files, which in our opinion is a vulgar propaganda film, which has no place in the selection of such a prestigious festival’s artistic competition.
The impact was immediate, for this Indian film is anything but trivial: it depicts the targeted killing and dramatic exodus of tens of thousands of Hindus. from the Kashmir region, at the start of the civil war that raged there in the early 1990s, around 100,000 people fled, terrorized by the rise of Islamist and separatist groups. Colleagues
