Award-winning Indian writer Arundhati Roy has withdrawn from the Berlin Film Festival over jury president Wim Wenders’s comments that cinema should “stay out of politics” when asked about Gaza. Roy said in a statement on Friday that she was “shocked and disgusted” by responses from Wenders and other jury members to a question about the Palestinian territory at a press conference on Thursday.

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