The ban was enforced after a recommendation from a six-member committee from the Ministry of Economy was relayed to the General Security agency, an apparatus affiliated with the Interior Ministry, which has the final say. Steven Spielberg, who hails from a Jewish family, was blacklisted by the Arab League’s Central Boycott Office after making a $1 million donation to Israel during the 2006 conflict with Lebanon. Both The BFG and Bridge of Spies - which mark Spielberg’s two most recent helming efforts before The Post - were released in Lebanon. The source says the move came as a shock, given that over the past three years, at least five films either directed or produced by Spielberg were accepted and approved by the censorship board and it is only now that it is invoking Spielberg’s inclusion on the “boycott Israel” list. A spokesperson for Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment says he cannot comment because the company has not been told officially by the Lebanese distributor that the pic will not be released there because of censorship. Italia Film was poised to release The Post in Lebanon on Jan. The matter has been transferred to Lebanon’s Minister of Interior and Municipalities, who could overturn the decision. Though The Post had initially passed the government’s normal screening procedures, the Campaign to Boycott Supporters of Israel-Lebanon (CBSIL) put pressure on the government to block the film over its director’s ties to Israel, the source told Annahar. While the star-studded Death on the Nile, which opened around the world this week, is the rare big-budget movie to be set in the Middle East, many in this region will not see it, since Lebanon has just joined Kuwait in banning the film due to the fact that Israeli actress Gal Gadot has a starring role.BEIRUT: Lebanon has officially banned The Post, the latest film by acclaimed Hollywood director Steven Spielberg, a Lebanon-based film industry source said Sunday.Ī source involved with the film’s international rollout says the Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks drama was presented to the Lebanese censorship board, which nixed it, citing a “boycott Israel” list that includes Spielberg due to his Oscar-winning Holocaust film Schindler’s List (the 1993 film shot some scenes in Jerusalem). The Attack is about a Palestinian suicide bomber and starred several Israeli actors. Lebanese-French director Ziad Doueiri, whose movie, The Insult, was nominated for an Oscar, was arrested and briefly detained at the airport in Beirut in 2017 because in 2013, he made a movie, The Attack, in Israel. The Lebanese establishment has punished Lebanese citizens for contact with Israelis in the past. Wonder Woman was banned in Qatar, while its sequel, Wonder Woman 1984 was also banned in Lebanon. Call for a boycott, but you sure as hell have no right in making sure no one else gets to watch it too.” Others noted that many Lebanese action-movie fans would simply find it on streaming sites and watch it at home. Blogger Elie Fares noted five years ago that, “The fact of the matter is that if you have a problem with the content of a movie, the actor or actress leading it or anything pertaining to it… Simply don’t go watch it. This drew criticism from Lebanese movie fans and bloggers who were more tolerant than the military censor. When her 2017 movie, Wonder Woman, was released worldwide, Lebanon also blocked its release. This is not the first time that Lebanon has banned the silver-screen star. Gadot served in the Israeli army, like all Israelis who do not receive a medical or religious exemption do, and the fact that she is an IDF veteran is enough to make her persona non grata in some of the Arab countries that have not signed peace treaties with Israel. Palestine – the star-studded Death on the Nile, which opened around the world this week, is the rare big-budget movie to be set in the Middle East, many in this region will not see it, since Lebanon has just joined Kuwait in banning the film due to the fact that Israeli actress Gal Gadot has a starring role.
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