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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Andrew Pulver

THE TRUTH ABOUT: Tilda swinton decries internationally enabled mass murder at berlin film festival | History Defined

Tilda Swinton at the Berlin international film festival.
Tilda Swinton at the Berlin international film festival. Photograph: Hannibal Hanschke/EPA

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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