The move briefly halted the flow of visitors dressed up for the premiere of Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba's film "Three Thousand Years of Longing," directed by George Miller.
Digital Desk: In a solo protest on Friday, a lady stripped off on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival to show her body painted in the colours of the Ukrainian flag with the words "Stop Raping Us."
The protester, who was wearing stained red panties, shouted and posed for cameras before being escorted away by security guards.
The move briefly halted the flow of visitors dressed up for the premiere of Tilda Swinton and Idris Elba's film "Three Thousand Years of Longing," directed by George Miller.
Last month, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky claimed that the authorities had received information about "hundreds of rape cases," including sexual assaults on small children, in territories occupied by Russian soldiers.
At the Cannes opening ceremony on Tuesday, former actor and President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky presented a video appeal for help for his nation.
The festival has already made the war a prominent theme, with a special showing of "Mariupolis 2," a documentary by Lithuanian director Mantas Kvedaravicius, who was assassinated in Ukraine last month purportedly by Russian forces.
On Saturday, the industry marketplace will honour Ukraine's suffering filmmakers, with one of the country's most promising directors, Sergei Loznitsa, presenting "The Natural History of Destruction," a documentary on the bombardment of German cities during WWII.
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