Cannes Film Festival Hit by Power Outage Ahead of Awards Ceremony
The city of Cannes was hit by a major power outage on Saturday morning, just hours before the film festival is set to award this year's Palme d'Or.
Around 10:15 a.m., right as the press conference for Kelly Reichardt's competition film 'The Mastermind' was starting, power in various areas of the city went out. According to Screen, which was first to report news of the outage, the power also went down in several screening rooms, halting films mid-way through. In the J.W. Marriott on the Croisette, a festival hub that several attendees fled to for internet access, the power flickered on and off several times.
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French broadcaster France 3 posted a video to its X account showing attendees navigating the festival in the dark, saying there had been a 'general power outage in the city.'
Festival de Cannes 2025. Une coupure générale d'électricité dans la ville https://t.co/R4SvVYo922 #Cannes2025 #cannes78 pic.twitter.com/YPk12jHDMs
— France 3 Côte d'Azur (@F3cotedazur) May 24, 2025
The festival's awards ceremony is set to start on Saturday night at 6:40 p.m. CET. Jury president Juliette Binoche and members Halle Berry, Jeremy Strong, Payal Kapadia, Hong Sansoo, Alba Rohrwacher, Leïla Slimani, Dieudo Hamadi and Carlos Reygadas will hand out the festival's top awards.
Variety has reached out to the festival for comment.
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