Cannes Film Festival | A banner with the names of victims of alleged feminicides unfurled on the red carpet

(Cannes) A ​​huge banner with the names of victims of suspected feminicides in France was unfurled on the Cannes red carpet on Sunday by members of a feminist collective, “Les Colleuses”, in honor of a documentary presented in the afternoon on the Croisette.

Angélique, Evelyne, Sofya, Nadia, a woman… The names or identities of the 129 victims of feminicides in France, “since the last Cannes Film Festival” in July 2021, were displayed on the steps of the Festival. Dressed in black, the activists then posed, fists raised, before using smoke bombs, suffusing the red carpet with black smoke.

The scene was immortalized by photographer Raymond Depardon, whose son Simon made the documentary with Marie Perennès. Feminist responsewhich follows these activists sticking, often at night, messages on the walls of cities to denounce gender-based violence, street harassment and provide messages of support for victims of sexual assault.

Before the screening of the film, presented on Sunday in a special session, the gluers once again raised their fists when the director called out their first name.

Another feminist punch action scored 75^and Cannes Film Festival: an activist denouncing the rapes committed by Russians in Ukraine burst in, bare-chested and bloodstained panties, on Friday on the red carpet, before being stopped by the security services. The action was then claimed on Twitter by the Scum movement, which defines itself as “radical” feminist.