Palestinian Issue Slipping into Oblivion, Top Chilean Filmmaker Warns

"Palestine is part of my history as it has been for years in violence and every day children and youth are getting killed as a result of Israel’s bullying,” Miguel Ernesto Littin Cucumides said in a meeting with Nader Talebzadeh, the secretary of the Ammar International Popular Film Festival (APFF), in Tehran on Sunday, according to the official website of the festival.

“When I was in Palestine, I desperately felt the loneliness of this land,” the Chilean filmmaker said, adding that Israeli forces have set up numerous checkpoints across the occupied territory and that people are going through a lot of pains and sufferings.

“The Palestinian situation is the worst part of mankind history and the lonely land is fading into oblivion,” he said.

“I believe a day will come when we are all in peace though our voice is not so much heard but our duty is to link nations with each other.”

Talebzadeh, for his part, said that the countdown for Palestine’s liberation from the clutches of the Israeli occupying forces has begun.

With the victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979 and designation of the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan as the International Quds Day by Imam Khomeini, the countdown for Palestine’s liberation started, he said.

Littin is currently in the Iranian capital to participate in the third edition of the APFF, scheduled to be held in Tehran later this month.

Miguel Littin, 74, is among the acclaimed guests invited to the three-day event.

Littin is known internationally as one of the foremost Latin American filmmakers. He has made 17 feature films and feature-length documentaries. Five of Littin’s films have been featured at the Cannes film festival. His most recent film was Allende in His Labyrinth 2014 (Allende en su Laberinto) about the last 7 hours of former President of Chile Salvador Allende during the brutal military coup d’etat on Sept. 11, 1973.

More than 5,000 films from 129 countries have been submitted to the secretariat of the APFF, which is a record-breaking number.

The mission of Ammar festival is to help the world become familiarized with the Iranian culture and promote the true image of Iran and the Iranian people.

This edition of the festival will highlight role of the global arrogant powers in orchestrating coups in other countries and overthrowing those who do not follow their lead.

The date of the international event is coincided with the 63rd anniversary of the US-sponsored 1953 coup d'état against the government of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadeq.

The CIA has acknowledged that the overthrow of Mossadeq was "carried out under CIA direction as an act of US foreign policy, conceived and approved at the highest levels of government," with the aid of the British Secret Intelligence Service.

The festival will be held in the Iranian capital on 24-26 August, 2016.

A series of meetings and workshops are also planned to be held on the sidelines of the event.