Cannes Film Festival workers launched a rooftop protest during the opening night gala. It wasn’t about the Israel-Hamas war. The protest was about good old-fashioned unemployment compensation.
The rooftop protest was described as impromptu but it is also reported that there were organizing and internal discussions by members of the Precarious Film Festival Workers Collective throughout the day on Tuesday.
Members of the group snuck onto the roof of the Palais where they dropped a sign with their motto Sous les écrans la dèche (Under the screen, the waste). At the same time, another group of demonstrators from the collective began a second protest on the ground. They held a sign with the same message and began chanting and blowing whistles to draw attention.
#CannesFilmFestival workers protest from two locations at the opening film premiere.
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