(Paris) The Cannes Film Festival will display its support for Ukraine with a special program of three documentaries on Tuesday, the day of the opening ceremony, the organizers announced on Friday.
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“This” Ukraine day “makes it possible to recall the commitment of artists, authors and journalists, in order to tell this conflict to the heart of Europe which affects the Ukrainian people and the world for three years already,” they said in a statement.
This “day of Ukraine”, with France Télévisions, the Brut’s French media and the town hall of Cannes, provides for the programming of three films devoted to the war at the Palais des Festivals, including a portrait of President Volodymyr Zelensky, a report on the front filmed between February and April 2025 by the French intellectual Bernard-Henri Lévy, and an immersion in a peloton Ukrainian.
-“This programming reminds us of the commitment of the Cannes Film Festival and its ability to tell the challenges of the world, which are those of our future thanks to the works of cinema. By associating themselves, France Télévisions, Brut and the Cannes Festival thus affirm their will to carry the voices of those who testify to contemporary realities and engage for the truth, “they continue.
The Cannes Film Festival demonstrated its support for Ukraine from the Russian invasion of 2022. In May of that year, President Zelensky had made a surprise intervention by video from Kyiv, during the opening ceremony, summoning Charlie Chaplin’s mind in the face of war.
The festival had announced that, as long as the war lasts, it would refuse to welcome “Russian official representatives, government bodies or journalists representing the official line”.
This year, the Ukrainian filmmaker Serguei Loznitsa is in competition for Two prosecutorsa film on Stalinist purges which promises to echo the news, and the Russian filmmaker in exile Kirill Serebrennikov is selected, in the Cannes Premier section, for The disappearance of Josef Mengele.
