The Berlin Film Festival, which begins this week, is set for a challenge faced by the entire Western arts industry: how to stop politics from taking over the conversation.

Ibrahim Mohammad Al-Shawish was one of 183 prisoners released from Israeli jails on Saturday as part of the ceasefire deal.

Fakhri Barghouti grimaced in pain as an exultant crowd lifted him onto their shoulders next to his son Shadi, released from an Israeli jail on Saturday under a Gaza ceasefire deal. Though Barghouti, ...