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Tilda Swinton Calls Out ‘War Criminals’ During Award Speech on Political Extremism

Tilda Swinton called out political extremism and "inhumane" actions during an acceptance speech at the Berlin Film Festival on Thursday.

Tilda Swinton spoke out against “war criminals,” political extremism, and “internationally-enabled mass murder” during her acceptance speech for a lifetime achievement award at the Berlin Film Festival in Germany on Thursday. Per Variety, as Swinton accepted the festival’s Golden Bear award, she said that “state-perpetrated and internationally-enabled mass murder is currently actively terrorizing more than one part of our world.” She also called independent cinema “innately inclusive, immune to efforts of occupation, colonization, takeover, ownership or the development of riviera property,” presumably a reference to President Donald Trump’s proposal to displace Gazans and turn the area into “the riviera of the Middle East.” I’m here to name it without hesitation or doubt in my mind and to lend my unwavering solidarity to all those who recognize the unacceptable complacency of our greed-addicted governments who make nice with planet-wreckers and war criminals, wherever they come from.”

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