'Son of Saul’ director says Jews are shunned in cinema
The director of "Son of Saul", the Holocaust movie that won the Oscar award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2016, said this week that the movie would’ve been ignored in today’s “shameless orgy of…
Assessment
A prominent filmmaker claims the industry climate has shifted so dramatically that a celebrated Holocaust film would now be unwatchable by the gatekeepers. The remark suggests that the perceived politicization of cinema, specifically regarding Jewish content, has created a barrier that did not exist a decade ago. The claim moves beyond anecdote into a testable assertion about how awards bodies and distributors currently operate.