The V4P (Venice for Palestine) movement, led by some 1,500 Italian and international film icons — including Marco Bellocchio, Matteo Garrone, Alice Rohrwacher, Ken Loach, and Céline Sciamma — sent a letter to the festival last Friday urging it to officially criticize the “ongoing genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing across Palestine.“ In a second, more recent letter, it requested the withdrawal of invitations to two celebrities — Gal Gadot and Gerard Butler — for having previously adopted pro-Israeli positions.