Les Colleuses: Last News

Cannes Film Festival red carpet to highlight violence against women ahead of the premiere of a film about the murder of sex workers.Agence France-Presse reports that Les Colleuses were behind the protest in which approximately 12 women set off black smoke grenades on the steps in front of the Palais des Festivals before the screening of Holy Spider yesterday (May 22).They carried a banner with the first names of 129 women killed in France since the last time the film festival was held, as The Guardian reports further. The protest happened before actors and crew members for the Ali Abbasi-directed movie had arrived.In the film a female journalist investigates the serial killing of sex workers in the Iranian holy city of Mashhad.

Cannes Film Festival.Members of the production team for “Butterly Vision,” by Ukrainian director Maksym Nakonechni, protested the ongoing war in Ukraine while on the red carpet Wednesday.In front of Salle Debussy, the second-largest theater in Cannes, the team — including producers Darya Bassel and Yelizaveta Smit, plus actress Rita Burkovska — held a banner that read, “Russians kill Ukrainians. Do you find it offensive or disturbing to talk about this genocide?”The sirens heard on the red carpet stairs were meant to symbolize air raids in Ukraine, while the protestors held signs that read “sensitive content” over their faces.Not only were they demonstrating the ongoing devastation in Ukraine, but they were also attempting to show the extent of Russian censorship.The film “Butterfly Vision” explores a similar idea, albeit in a fictional world.