“Cannes” festival begins with “Zelensky” message
The 75th Cannes Film Festival officially kicked off yesterday with a message from Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky.
Theater News Base: The Cannes Film Festival kicked off on Tuesday with a red carpet, a ceremony attended by movie stars and a video message from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelinsky.
“We need a new Charlie Chaplin,” said Zelensky, who urged the world of cinema not to remain silent in the face of war. “To prove that today’s cinema is not silent.”
“We must win,” the Ukrainian president said in a live video message from Kiev. “We need a cinema that can guarantee this end, a cinema that is always on the side of freedom.”
The Cannes Film Festival began with the release of “The Last Cut” by French director Michel Azanavis, best known for making the Oscar-winning film “The Artist.” “The Last Cut” is a French-language version and remake of the Japanese film “One Cut Of The Dead” made by Shinichiro Oeda in 2017, starring Bernice Beju, Finnigan Oldfield, and Jean Pascal Zadi. , “Liz Salem” and “Luana Bajrami” have played roles.
Forrest Whitaker also received the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or from Pierre Lescour, President of the Cannes Film Festival, as the special guest of the opening ceremony.
“An honorary palm for an artist, a filmmaker, a UNESCO ambassador and, in other words, a global citizen,” Lescour said at the award ceremony.
The world’s largest film festival will run from May 17 to 28.