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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Philip Oltermann European culture editor

German minister says she clapped Israeli film-maker, not his Palestinian colleague, at Berlinale

Claudia Roth, Germany’s federal commissioner for culture, at the Berlin film festival
Claudia Roth, Germany’s federal commissioner for culture, at the Berlin film festival last week. Photograph: Andreas Rentz/Getty Images

Germany’s minister of state for culture has insisted she was only clapping the Israeli but not the Palestinian half of a film-making duo that won one of the major awards at the politically charged closing ceremony for the Berlin film festival.

At Saturday night’s awards event, the Palestinian film-maker Basel Adra and the Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham jointly took to the stage on Saturday to accept the best documentary prize for their joint film No Other Land, which charts the eradication of Palestinian villages in the West Bank.

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