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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Andrew Pulver

Tilda Swinton decries ‘internationally enabled mass murder’ at Berlin film festival

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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