The Cannes Film Festival had good reason to calmly consider its next edition, with the ebb of the Covid epidemic, which has upset the world and its organization for two years (cancellation in 2020, postponement of the festival to July in 2021).
The war in Ukraine darkens the cloudless skies of the Côte d'Azur, although it is impossible to say at this time what impact the conflict will have on the event.
Its organizers published a press release on Tuesday 1 March announcing that they had
"decided, unless the war of aggression ceases under conditions that will satisfy the Ukrainian people, not to welcome official delegations from Russia nor to accept the presence of any authority linked to the Russian government".
Russian filmmakers will not be persona non grata.
There is no doubt that Ukrainian artists will be particularly welcome.
Sergei Loznitsa has just submitted his new documentary,
Histoire naturelle de la destruction…
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