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Acclaimed Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid, head of the international jury at the International Film Festival of India (IFFI) in Goa, has caused outrage at the closing ceremony of the festival. Lapid, who won the Golden Bear in Berlin in 2019 for Synonyms and shared the 2021 Jury Prize in Cannes for Ahed’s Knee, criticized the inclusion of a controversial film, saying that The Kashmir Files was “propaganda and vulgar” and that he was “disturbed and shocked” at the screening of the film. “It seemed to us like a propagandist movie inappropriate for an artistic, competitive section of such a prestig…