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Tilda Swinton: 'The inhumane is being perpetrated on our watch'

British actor Tilda Swinton uses her Berlin Film Festival speech to condemn 'state-perpetrated and internationally enabled mass murder,' calling out the complacency of 'greed-addicted governments' as she accepts the Golden Bear for lifetime achievement. Without uttering the words Gaza and in reference to US President Donald Trump’s plan for the enclave, the Oscar-winning star also highlighted ‘the great independent state of cinema,’ what she called ‘an unlimited realm, innately inclusive, immune to efforts of occupation, colonisation, takeover, ownership or the development of Riviera property.’

February 15, 2025 at 12:37 pm

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