Highlights from Cannes as film festival wraps up
- The 2025 Cannes Film Festival began on May 13 on the French Riviera and featured a drama-filled closing ceremony with a power outage.
- The festival introduced a new dress code banning extravagantly large dresses and 'total nudity', leading to wardrobe changes for Halle Berry and Indian model Snigdha Baruah.
- The event included a #MeToo policy barring an actor accused of rape from attending the red carpet and premiered a documentary on Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Hassouna.
- Tom Cruise narrowly avoided serious injury during a South Africa stunt, with a US filmmaker stating, 'We could not tell if he was conscious or not,' while the closing day saw a power outage lasting over five hours.
- The festival’s incidents highlighted industry pressures on safety, inclusion, and political issues, while the power cut was blamed on suspected sabotage near a local substation.
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Highlights from Cannes as film festival wraps up
As the Cannes film festival hands out its prizes, AFP looks back at some of the highlights of a politically charged fortnight of screenings and celebrity sightings.
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