EXCLUSIVE: The Cannes Film Festival is well known as a place of protest and this year will be no different.
However, this edition, the rebellion is coming from within. We can reveal that up to 200 French film festival workers — a combination of Cannes workers and workers from other festivals across France — are planning protests during the event over pay.
The protests are being led by the group known as Sous Les Écrans La Dèche: Collectif Des Précaires Des Festivals De Cinéma (which translates to Under The Screens, The Waste: The Collective of Precarious Workers at Film Festivals).
The name is a reference to the famous slogan of the May ‘68 protests: “Sous les pavés, la plage” (Under paving stones, the beach).
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