A Palestinian work was screened at the Cannes Film Festival\u2019s March\u00e9 du Film as planned on Monday, despite an intense campaign by Israel lobby groups to have it canceled.<\/p>\n
Nasri Hajjaj\u2019s Munich: A Palestinian Story<\/em><\/a> was one of four films excerpts of which were screened to industry professionals in collaboration with the Dubai International Film Festival.<\/p>\n Hajjaj told The Electronic Intifada from Cannes that the screening of a 14-minute segment passed without incident and he received a positive response from those present.<\/p>\n As The Electronic Intifada reported last week<\/a>, France\u2019s main pro-Israel lobby group CRIF<\/a> had been exerting intense pressure on authorities to ban the film, even enlisting the support of the mayor of Cannes.<\/p>\n CRIF claimed that the film engages in \u201chistorical revisionism\u201d about the 1972 raid on the Munich Olympics by the Palestinian group Black September, in which 11 Israeli athletes, a German police officer and five hostage takers died.<\/p>\n But CRIF could not know this since the unfinished documentary had never been publicly screened.<\/p>\n