Film of Palestinian girls reading Anne Frank’s diary airs in Iran

A film of Palestinian and Israeli girls reading excerpts from “The Diary of Anne Frank” that was partly shot in Gaza during the 2014 war is shown in Iran.

“Anne Frank: Then and Now” shows 10 girls — two Israeli and eight Palestinian — reading lines from the journal penned by the young Dutch Jewess while she was in hiding during World War II. The film uses various images of Gaza as a backdrop, including piles of rubble apparently from Israeli airstrikes. Some of the film was also shot in Jaffa and Jerusalem.

The Guardian says that the screening of the film in Iran was followed by a lengthy talk from its Croatian director, Jakov Sedlar, who urged the audience to find out more about the Holocaust.

Secrecy surrounds the location of the Iranian viewing so as to protect its organizers, the newspaper says.

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