Now she has done it. In her press conference as a Golden Ehrenbär, the actress and Oscar winner Tilda Swinton expressed her sympathy for the BDS campaign, which calls for Israel boycott, in business, culture, science and sport. The Bundestag had convicted the BDS (“Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions”) in a resolution in 2019, since it “led to the Brand Marketing of Israeli Citizens of Jewish faith as a whole”, that is, an anti -Semitic one.
First of all, she emphasized that “we have to believe in the humanity of people”, in the fact that it was possible to “move, move and change the minds and hearts of dissenters. But then she explained to the BDS when asked by a journalist: “I am a great admirer of the BDS, I have great respect for it and think about it a lot”.
At a personal moment, she decided to come to the Berlinale, according to the 64-year-old, famous for her collaboration with big author filmmakers, including Derek Jarman, Jim Jarmusch, Wes Anderson and Pedro Almodóvar. “It was more important for me,” said Swinton, for “our all concerns” this may be more useful than their non -appearance. Many feel the feeling of fainting and hopelessness, so “every powerful action, every gesture feels like a good option”. A few weeks ago, the BDS called for the boycott of the festival.
I am a great admirer of the BDS, think a lot about it
Tilda Swinton, winner of the Golden Ehrenbären
It is regrettable that Swinton was explicitly asked to declare her attitude to the BDS-your support even after the Hamas terror of October 7th-and that it also explicitly answered. Because in her ten-minute acceptance speech at the opening of the gala, she had spoken out against camp thinking and celebrated the cinema as a country without borders, “without deportation and visa light”.
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Tilda Swinton, who is mainly in the British cultural area, in which many artists support the BDS, such as Roger Waters or Ken Loach, condemned the cruelty of all mass murders in their speech in the Berlinale Palace. She waived the naming of countries or populations and only became clear once in the direction of Donald Trump. The independent kingdom of the cinema, she said, is invisible to endeavor to the occupation and colonization “or the development of Riviera property land ownership”.
With her sympathy for the BDS the following day, she is now falling behind her own plea against simple black and white pattern. With boycott calls, you do not move and change your heads and hearts, but only explains to the right side of history. Do not buy any goods from Israel, don’t buy from Jews? In Germany, the land of the Shoah, this can only be clearly understood anti -Semitic. How can Tilda Swinton Brandkarten be good if she credible to openness at the same time?
On Friday, Swinton emphasizes that they mean all wars, not just in Gaza, but does not say a word about Hamas terror. Festival boss Tricia Tuttle sits next to her, says nothing about that. At the opening, Tuttle had stood on the red carpet for the expressions of solidarity for Hamas-Geisel David Cunio together with others.
Tilda Swinton is an artist, not a politician. An artist who exuded the noblesse and authority of a sovereign on the stage of the Berlinale Palace, just that independent empire of cinema. An actress who is celebrated for the versatility of her characters for her open, fluid art. In his laudation, Oscar winner Edward Berger paid tribute to her “exceptionally beautiful soul”. Tilda Swinton is extraordinary because she shows us how many souls live in our breast, how different we are, often also from ourselves. Her films say: don’t judge, be curious, look.
Your Pro-BDS announcement does not change this. But it clouds the joy of the restart of the Berlinale under Tricia Tuttle, and a little the never -resonant light of cinema in the dark, as Swinton put it at the gala. And it clouds the joy of Swinton’s words worth considering to defend humanity. Again: boycott is not a means of dialogue. He pulls the fences up instead of overcoming the borders.