The woman, dressed in the colors of the Ukrainian flag, blue and yellow, smiled for the cameras before being escorted away by security.
A woman dressed in the colors of the Ukrainian flag was removed from the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival on Sunday after pouring fake blood on herself in what appeared to be a protest against the war.
The incident took place before the premiere of French director Just Philippot‘s film “Acide” on Sunday evening at the festival in the south of France.
It was not immediately clear why the protest took place during that screening.
The protester, wearing a yellow and blue dress and blue high heels, seemed to take two capsules of the red substance from her dress and then dropped them onto her head while smiling for the cameras. The fake blood pooled on the steps of the red carpet beneath her.
A security guard then escorted the woman down the stairs and away from the event.
Thierry Frémaux, the director of the Cannes Film Festival, had said before the event started last week that he stood in solidarity with Ukraine.
At the festival’s opening ceremony on Tuesday evening, French actress Catherine Deneuve paid tribute to the victims of the war by reciting the poem “Hope” by Lesya Ukrainka, the Ukrainian poet.
The ban on Russian delegations or film companies linked to the Russian government remains in place at this year’s festival, after being implemented last year.
At last year’s Cannes Film Festival, a Ukrainian woman staged a protest on the red carpet against Russian forces by stripping naked and revealing the message “Stop raping us” written in body paint on her chest, over a blue and yellow flag.
The demonstration came amid reports of soldiers committing acts of sexual violence against women in Ukraine.
