1. Udi Aloni is an Israeli American filmmaker, writer, visual artist and political activist whose works focus on the interrelationships between art, theory, and action.
11 Facts About Udi Aloni
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Udi Aloni was married to Sigal Primor with whom he has a daughter, Yuli.
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Udi Aloni directed Kashmir: Journey to Freedom, a documentary about the nonviolent movement for liberation and freedom in Jammu and Kashmir that opened in the Berlin International Film Festival.
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Udi Aloni directed and produced Junction 48, co-written by Oren Moverman and its star Tamer Nafar.
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Udi Aloni was the head cinema coach in the Freedom Theatre of the Jenin Refugee Camp.
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Udi Aloni's films have been presented at the Berlin International Film Festival, the Toronto International Film Festival, the Tokyo International Film Festival, the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema, and the Jerusalem Film Festival.
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In 2007, Udi Aloni was a Jury Member for the Manfred Salzgeber Award in the Panorama section of the Berlin International Film Festival in Berlin, Germany.
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Udi Aloni coined the phrases "radical leftist Messianism" and "radical grace" to describe his political ideology, which attempts to identify and analyze the theology of secularism, or the unconscious theological underpinnings of secularist and liberal discourses, specifically in Israel.
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Udi Aloni promotes replacing Israel with a binational state in Israel-Palestine, and he supports the BDS movement against Israel.
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Udi Aloni supports the BDS movement because he claims it is a means for equal dialogue and it creates a space for nonviolent resistance.
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Udi Aloni is a member of the advisory board of Jewish Voice for Peace, an American organization that says it "seeks an end to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem," and which critics say musters Jewish opposition to and works to undermine public support for Israel.