Mumbai In a single protest on Friday, a lady stripped undressed on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival to display her body painted in the colors of the Ukrainian flag with the words “Stop Raping Us.”
The demonstrator, who was wearing red underpants, shouted and posed for photographers before being escorted away by security guards.
The stunt briefly disrupted the parade of visitors dressed up for the premiere of Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba’s film “Three Thousand Years of Longing,” directed by George Miller.
Last month, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky claimed investigators had received accusations of “hundreds of cases of rape,” including sexual assaults on minors, in territories previously occupied by Russian soldiers.
At the Cannes opening ceremony on Tuesday, Zelensky, a former actor, presented a video appeal for aid for his homeland.
The festival has already made the war a significant focus, with a special showing of “Mariupolis 2,” a documentary by Lithuanian director Mantas Kvedaravicius, who was assassinated in Ukraine last month — purportedly by Russian forces.
Ukraine’s beleaguered film-makers will get a special day at the industry marketplace on Saturday, and one of its most promising directors, Sergei Loznitsa, will show “The Natural History of Destruction”, about the bombing of German cities in World War II.
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