500 French Cinema Figures Get Behind Silent March For Peace In Paris
deadline.comJuliette Binoche, Marion Cotillard and Jacques Audiard are among 500 French cinema professionals to have signed an open letter in support of a silent march for peace in Paris this Sunday.
The initiative – created in response to the Israel-Hamas conflict and its ongoing reverberations around the world – is being spearheaded by the newly launched Une Autre Voix (Another Voice) collective. “This fratricidal war affects us all, and regardless of our reasons or affinities on each side of the wall, we want it to cease and that both peoples finally live in peace,” reads the letter. “This is why we are organizing a silent, united, humanist and peaceful march that will open with a single long white banner.
No political claims nor slogans. White flags, white handkerchiefs are welcome.” Belgian-Moroccan actress Lubna Azabal (The Blue Cafta, Tel Aviv On Fire) presides over the Une Autre Voix collective which also features French actress and director Julie Gayet and screenwriter Baya Kasmi as well as Lebanese-Canadian dramatist Wajdi Mouawad (Incendies) among his racks.
Further signatories of the letter include Mona Achache, Sofia Alaoui, Jeanne Balibar, Emmanuelle Bercot, Sami Bouajila, Laure Calamy, François Cluzet, Abdel Raouf Dafri, Grégory Gadebois, Michel Hazanavicious, Tewfik Jallab, Olga Kurylenko, Alexandra Lamy, Fabrice de La Patelliere, Mélanie Laurent, Charlotte le Bon, Virginie Ledoyen, Claude Lelouch, Jalil Lespert, Kad Merad and Elsa Zylberstein to name but a few.
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