Pedro Almodóvar used his dais at the Film at Lincoln Center stage Monday night, where he received the Chaplin Award, to share a political message slamming Donald Trump. The Spanish Oscar-winning “Talk to Her” and “The Room Next Door” filmmaker dedicated the award to trans actress Hunter Schafer, the “thousands of deportees in recent weeks,” and Harvard University, all of whom have faced scrutiny under the Trump administration.

“I doubted if it was appropriate to come to a country ruled by a narcissistic authority, who doesn’t respect human rights,” Almodóvar said of traveling to the U.S. to accept the Chaplin award. “Trump and his friends, millionaires and oligarchs, cannot convince us that the reality we are seeing with our own eyes is the opposite of what we are living, however much he may twist the words, claiming that they mean the opposite of what they do. Immigrants are not criminals.