Ukrainian filmmakers protest Russian ‘genocide’ at Cannes premiere

Ukrainian filmmakers protest Russian ‘genocide’ at Cannes premiere

The upcoming Cannes premiere was marked by political protests. On Wednesday, a group of Ukrainian filmmakers walked up the red carpet stairs in front of Cannes’ second largest theater, Sal Debussy, and held up a banner protesting what has been called social media censorship of the war in Ukraine.

Standing on the stairs as air raid sirens sound, he addresses the alarm that goes off in Ukrainian skies when a Russian attack is imminent: Maxime Nakonechny, skin director for Un Certain Regard. butterfly visionThe film was produced by Daria Basel and Elizaveta Smith, starring Rita Burkovska and several members of the producers.

“The Russians are killing the Ukrainians. Do you find it offensive or upsetting to talk about this genocide?” To read.

Protesters protested the dangerous form of censorship by social media platforms, which they believe hide the uncomfortable and disturbing reality of the war.

nakonechnis butterfly vision Look directly at this reality. The film, set before the current conflict, tells the story of a female soldier (Burkovska) who returns home to her family after spending months captured by Russian forces in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, which has been partially occupied by Russia since 2014. He fights. Back to normal life, he suffered an injury.

This was not the first protest this year at the Cannes Film Festival. May 20, before the airing of George Miller’s world premiere three thousand years of longingA woman walking the red carpet, almost naked, showed her body painted in the colors of the Ukrainian flag, with the words “Stop our rape” written on her belly.

Just two days later, at the Prime Minister’s display of Ali Abbas sacred spiderA group of women from the Les Colleuses feminist movement, dressed in black and puffing smoke from hand tools with raised hands, unfurled a banner with the names of 129 women victims of domestic violence in France since the last skin. A film festival was held.

The demonstration against femicide was linked to the issue sacred spiderWhich is the story of an Iranian serial killer who kills prostitutes to “cleanse” his city of “bad women”.

Source: Hollywood Reporter

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