Making a point: When the Cannes red carpet served as the ideal ground for protests
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Making a point: When the Cannes red carpet served as the ideal ground for protests

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This year’s edition of the Cannes film festival has seen two protests within three days; a woman tore across the red carpet naked on Friday, highlighting rapes in Ukraine. This isn’t the first time that the Cannes red carpet has served as protest spot; in 1968, the film festival had to be cancelled halfway due to protests led by François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard. Protesting violence towards women On Sunday, a group of feminist protesters staged a protest on the Cannes Film Festival red carpet, unfurling a banner to highlight violence against women. Yesterday, ahead of the screening of "Riposte féministe" by Marie Perennès & Simon Depardon, the collective group "Les Colleuses" lit black smoke on the red steps in tribute to the 129 victims of femicide since the last Festival de Cannes #Cannes2022 pic.twitter.com/RobTlhcPdY — Festival de Cannes May 23, 2022 The protest came at the premiere for the Iranian film Holy Spider.

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