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The list of 10 names in the #MoiAussi scandal
Everything is ready in Cannes for the 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, which starts today until May 25th, but the organization is trembling due to the announced harassment scandal which risks blowing up the opening ceremony on the Croisette. It is being carried forward by #MoiAussi, the French version of #MeToo, which has a list of 10 famous people, including actors, directors and producers, accused of sexual harassment and violence, and which the magazine «Mediapart» is threatening to disclose today.
Thierry Frémaux, general delegate of the event, declared that he hopes for “a festival free from controversy”, whose sole objective is to ensure “that the main interest for all of us is cinema”.
Great tension developed around the festival area, where checks multiplied. Since 2018, the festival has been committed to the fight against VHSS (sexist and sexual violence and harassment) during the event, establishing a dedicated assistance unit with a listening and support cell, after the shocking revelations of #MeToo.
Mohammad Rasoulof verso Cannes
Meanwhile, yesterday the Iranian director Mohammad Rasoulof, whose latest film, The Seed of the Sacred Fig Tree, will be screened at the Cannes Film Festival on May 24, announced with a message published on his Instagram profile that he had left Iran clandestinely, accompanying him with a video in which you see a snowy mountain landscape. Iranian authorities confiscated his passport in 2017, after he was sentenced to a year in prison in Iran for “anti-system propaganda” against the Iranian government. The director was released following a general amnesty.
Last Wednesday Rasoulof was again sentenced to five years in prison in his country for his film Evil Does Not Exist, with which he won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival in absentia in 2020.