Ukrainian producer and director Alexander Rodnyansky has pulled his work Notes of a True Criminal from the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam ( IDFA ) in response to its decision to exclude Israeli state-backed organizations and films from this year’s edition.

“My film is not Israeli and neither am I. I am Ukrainian and my decision is based not on my nationality but on the principles I have held my entire life. It is my firm conviction that you cannot judge a nation and that we judge people by their actions, not by their passports,” Rodnyansky wrote on Instagram.

IDFA has stoked debate with its decision to bar Israel ’s publicly funded DocAviv Festival, CoPro – The Israeli Content Marketing Foundation and state broadcaster Kan as well as any films with Israeli st

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