The Cannes Film Festival joined this Tuesday veto thrown against Russia by major international events and decided to exclude official Russian delegations this year or to any instance linked to the Russian Government.
“However modest, we join our voice to that of all those who oppose this unacceptable situation and denounce the attitude of Russia and its leaders,” the contest, which will celebrate its 75th edition from May 17 to 28.
Your statement did not expressly cite a possible veto of Russian films in his official selection, but he did clarify that the decision to exclude the Russian official delegations or instances will be in force unless the war ceases “in conditions that satisfy the Ukrainian population.”
The festival did want to highlight “the courage of all those who, in Russia, have run the risk of protesting against the aggression and invasion of Ukraine.”
“Among them are artists and film professionals who have never stopped fighting the current regime and who should not be associated with those intolerable acts and with those who bomb Ukraine,” he stressed.
“True to its history, which began in 1939 in resistance to the fascist and Nazi dictatorships, Cannes will always be at the service of artists and film professionalswhose voice is raised to denounce violence, repression and injustice, and to defend peace and freedom”, he added.
The contest specifically cited Ukrainian artists and film professionalsas well as their families. “We know some of them and we have welcomed them in Cannes through works that, all of them, say a lot about the history and the present of Ukraine”, he concluded.
A regular on the Croisette, the famous boulevard that hosts the event’s red carpet, is Sergei LoznitsaUkrainian filmmaker born in Belarus, who has presented in competition schastye moe or my joy (2010), V Tumane (2012) and Krotkayaas well as the documentary Maidan (2014), the anthology The bridges of Sarajevo (2014) and Baby Yar. Context (2021) in its special sessions, and donbass (2018), award for best direction.
Source: Eluniverso
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