Tilda Swinton decries ‘internationally enabled mass murder’ at Berlin film festival
Actor speaks out against ‘the unacceptable complacency of our greed-addicted governments’ as she picks up a Golden Bear award for lifetime achievement
Tilda Swinton has given a speech at the Berlin film festival in which she called out the “the astonishing savagery of spite, state-perpetrated and internationally enabled mass murder”.
Swinton was speaking after being awarded a Golden Bear for lifetime achievement at the festival, and without naming Ukraine, Gaza – or Donald Trump – excoriated what she called “our greed-addicted governments”. In remarks reported by the Hollywood Reporter, Swinton took aim at the “entitled domination and the astonishing savagery of spite, state-perpetrated and internationally enabled mass murder … unacceptable to human society”.
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