A huge banner with the names of victims of feminicides in France was unfurled on the Cannes red carpet on Sunday May 22 by members of a feminist collective, Les Colleuses, in honor of a documentary presented in the afternoon. on the Croisette.
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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, with Marie Perennès, the documentary
Riposte féministe
, which follows these activists sticking, often at night, messages on the walls of cities to denounce sexist violence, street harassment and bring messages of support to victims of sexual assault and feminicide.
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Before the screening of the film, presented on Sunday May 22 in a special session, the gluers once again raised their fists when the director called out their first name.
"We're in black because we're in mourning,"
explained the gluers after the screening,
"We weren't going to come to Cannes to pose, we didn't want to climb the stairs smiling, but like activists, not like actresses”,
who hid the smoke bombs in their underwear.
“In fact in Cannes, too, we reclaim the space as we reclaim the street,”
said Thaïs Caprio.
“In fact, feminists are coming to Cannes and not just on the screen”
.
Another feminist punch action marked the 75th Cannes Film Festival: an activist denouncing the rapes committed by Russians in Ukraine had burst in, bare-chested and panties stained with blood, Friday May 20 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.
A shirtless woman painted in the colors of the Ukrainian flag with the words in English "stop raping us".
ERIC GAILLARD / REUTERS