Women Activists Protest Domestic Violence At Cannes Red Carpet With Smoke Grenades
Cannes has had another protest on the red carpet two days after a naked woman demonstrated violence towards women in Ukraine. A group of women dressed in black unfurled a banner and let off black smoke grenades while raising their fists in the air. No official word yet on who has carried out the protest.
Cannes has had another protest on the red carpet, two days after a naked woman demonstrated violence towards women in Ukraine.
A group of women dressed in black unfurled a banner and let off black smoke grenades while raising their fists in the air. There¡¯s no official word yet on who has carried out the protest but the banner features a long list of women¡¯s names interspersed with the words ¡°A Woman¡±.
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Members of the feminist movement "Les Colleuses" hold a banner bearing the names of 129 women who died as a result of domestic violence since the last Cannes Film Festival
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According to our research, the names on the banner correspond to women killed by men in France in cases of domestic violence.
Woman strips on the red carpet
A woman stripped naked on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival to reveal her body painted in the colours of the Ukrainian flag with the words "Stop Raping Us" in a solo protest on Friday.
Wearing underpants stained red, the demonstrator shouted and posed for photographers before being led off by security guards.
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The stunt briefly interrupted the parade of guests in evening wear, including Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba, attending the premiere of their film "Three Thousand Years of Longing" by George Miller.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said last month that investigators had received reports of "hundreds of cases of rape" in areas previously occupied by Russian troops, including sexual assaults on small children.
Zelensky at Cannes
Zelensky, a former actor, launched a video appeal for aid for his country at the Cannes opening ceremony on Tuesday.
The war has already been a major theme at the festival, with a special screening on Thursday of "Mariupolis 2", a documentary by Lithuanian director Mantas Kvedaravicius, who was killed in Ukraine last month -- reportedly by Russian forces.
Ukraine's beleaguered filmmakers 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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