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In a solo protest on Friday, a woman stripped off on the Cannes Film Festival red carpet to reveal her body painted in the color schemes of the Ukrainian flag with the words “Stop Raping Us.”
The demonstrator, who was wearing red underpants, shouted and posed for photojournalists before being led away by security guards. The stunt briefly disrupted the parade of guests in evening gowns, including Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba, who were attending the premiere of George Miller’s film “Three Thousand Years of Longing.”
Last month, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said investigators had received a report of “hundreds of cases of rape” in areas formerly occupied by Russian troops, including sexual assaults on small children.
Zelensky, a former actor, launched a video aid appeal for his country at the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday.
The war has already been a key theme at the festival, with a special screening of “Mariupolis 2,” a docudrama by Lithuanian director Mantas Kvedaravicius, who was died in Ukraine last month – allegedly by Russian forces.
On Saturday, Ukraine’s beleaguered filmmakers will be treated to a special day at the industry marketplace, and one of its most promising directors, Sergei Loznitsa, will screen “The Natural History of Destruction,” a documentary about the bombing of German cities during WWII.
