Anne Frank film shot during 2014 Israel-Gaza conflict secretly screened in Iran

Anne Frank: Then and Now presents excerpts from the diary acted by two Israelis and eight Palestinian girls, one of whom performs in front of rubble from an Israeli airstrike

A documentary about Anne Frank, shot in Gaza and starring Palestinian girls reading from the German-born Jew’s diary, has been secretly screened in Iran. It’s an event Deadline has called a “clandestine cultural breakthrough” because the country’s Supreme Leader is a Holocaust denier.

Anne Frank: Then and Now was filmed during the 2014 Israel-Gaza conflict. The film is split between an educational documentary about Frank’s time hiding from the Nazis in occupied Holland and excerpts from the diary acted by two Israelis and eight Palestinian girls, one of whom performs in front of the rubble from an Israeli airstrike.

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