a call for a strike launched one week before the opening

Cinema workers have called a strike for the next Cannes Film Festival, which is due to start on May 14.

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A collective of cinema workers has called a strike regarding the Cannes Film Festival. This great cinema mass must be held from Tuesday May 14.

This collective of cinema workers called a strike “of all employees of the Cannes Film Festival and parallel sections” aimed at ” disturb “one week before the opening of the biggest event in the 7th art.

This call, extremely rare, does not call into question the opening or holding of the festival itself, specified to AFP a spokesperson for the collective “Under the screens, la dèche”, and the objective is not to harm the films that will be presented, but a strike could “disrupt the event”. When questioned, the festival did not react immediately.

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