As she fell to her knees wailing in front of the collected photographers, the woman pulled off all of her attire. According to observers, she had painted her body in the hues of the Ukrainian flag and the phrases ‘Stop Raping Us.’The demonstrator, who was wearing red pants, yelled and posed for the photographers before being escorted away by security guards.Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba, who were witnessing the screening of their film “Three Thousand Years of Longing” helmed by George Miller, were temporarily disrupted by the stunt of the women. Kyle Buchanan spoke on Twitter regarding the incident. , “Something, obviously! I believe she scribbled something on her torso, but she was swiftly covered up.”
Last month, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky claimed detectives had obtained accusations of “thousands of instances of rape,” involving sexual assaults on small kids, in territories previously occupied by Russian soldiers. The news itself is really disturbing to hear and besides the condition being pathetic, the safety is also a matter now. At the Cannes inauguration ceremony on Tuesday, Zelensky, a veteran actor, presented an audiovisual making an appeal for aid for his homeland. “We need a fresh (Charlie) Chaplin to show that film now isn’t silent,” Zelensky added. The president was alluding to Charlie Chaplin’s Adolf Hitler parody, which was released at the start of World War II in the year 1939.
The exhibition has already made the conflict a significant focus, with a special showing of “Mariupolis 2,” a documentary helmed by Lithuanian director Mantas Kvedaravicius, who was assassinated in Ukraine last month — purportedly by Russian forces. On Saturday, the industry forum will honour Ukraine’s suffering filmmakers, with one of the country’s most exciting directors, Sergei Loznitsa, presenting “The Natural History of Destruction,” a documentary on the bombardment of German cities during World War II. During the inaugural ceremony, Ukraine’s president remarked, via a live stream connection from Kyiv: “We have to prevail. We need cinema to ensure this outcome, that it will always be on the side of liberty.”The carnival also features a number of films by Ukrainian filmmakers.