Ken Loach and Mike Leigh resign as patrons of London cinema over Israeli film festival screening

Loach said it was ‘simply unacceptable’ that the cinema goes ahead with a screening of documentary about Hamas’s 7 October attack

Ken Loach and Mike Leigh have resigned as patrons of the Phoenix cinema in London in protest over the venue hosting an Israeli state-sponsored film festival.

The cinema – one of the UK’s oldest – is holding a private screening of Supernova: The Music Festival Massacre, as part of the international Seret film festival on Thursday night.