Cast and crew from the film 'The Dead and The Other' Thiago Macedo Correia, from left, producer Ricardo Alves Jr., producer Isabella Nader, co-director Renee Nader Messora, co-director Joao Salaviza and actor Ihjac Kraho, right, hold placards calling for the demarcation of indigenous lands and a halt to the genocide of indigenous people in Brazil, upon arrival at the premiere of the film 'Dogman' at the 71st international film festival, Cannes, Wednesday, May 16, 2018. (Photo by Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP)
CANNES, France (AP) --
Cast and crew members of the Brazilian film "The Dead and the Other" held up placards on the Cannes Film Festival red carpet Wednesday to protest what they called "the genocide" of indigenous people in Brazil.
The movie is based on the filmmakers' experience living for nearly a year in a village of Kraho people in north Brazil. It is playing in the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes.
Co-directors Joao Salaviza and Renee Nader Messora joined actor Ihjac Kraho in displaying the signs calling for the protection of indigenous lands. They were attending the premiere of "Dogman."
Brazilian politicians last year changed how land is to be demarcated for 900,000 aboriginal people. Activists maintain that without more protection, indigenous groups are being pushed off their land in violent disputes.
Italian photographer Oliviero Toscani is pictured in front of one of his works, a self-portrait, at the former Church of St. Pier Scheraggio, in Florence, Italy, Sept. 7, 2016. (Leonardo Bianchi/LaPresse via AP)
Oliviero Toscani, the photographer behind Benetton's provocative ad campaigns of the 1980s and 1990s who later broke with the Italian knitwear brand amid controversy, died Monday at age 82.
Toscani disclosed last year he had a rare disease. "It is with immense pain that we announce that our beloved Oliviero has undertaken his next journey," his wife, Kirsti, and their three children said in a statement. He died at a hospital in Livorno, Tuscany, the news agency ANSA reported.
Toscani had amyloidosis, a disease characterized by a buildup of abnormal protein deposits in the body. He told Corriere della Sera in August he lost had 40 kilograms (nearly 90 pounds) in a year, adding, "I don't know how long I have left to live, but I'm not interested in living like this anyway."
Toscani also said he would like to be remembered "not for any one photo but for my whole work, for the commitment."
Toscani was the creative force behind shock ad campaigns of the 1980s and 1990s that featured images such as the pope kissing an imam on the lips, which angered the Vatican.
Other images promoting the United Colors of Benetton depicted a priest embracing a nun, a newborn baby with its umbilical cord and a black woman breastfeeding a white baby, part of the brand's advocacy for diversity, religious tolerance and environmental messages.
During a 1997 shoot of a Benetton campaign featuring Jews and Arabs living peacefully together in Israel, Toscani told The Associated Press, "Any picture is a political image, so we make our choice and we go for the real thing."
He added: "You might have to face criticism. A lot of people don't like things that are different. Everybody likes to conform. We don't conform."
