Cannes Film Festival: on the red carpet, a demonstration for a greener cinema

Serious remonstrances addressed to the dream industry. Led by the writer and activist Cyril Dion, a few dozen film professionals, members of the Cut! collective, took over the steps of the Palais des Festivals in Cannes on Monday to raise awareness in the world of the seventh art of the necessary "mobilization general" involved in the fight against global warming.

For this publicity stunt, made before the screening of Jessica Hausner's film, Club Zero, in the official selection, the various participants held up sheets inscribed with the name of their profession: "sound engineer", "actress", " exporter”, “operator”, “director”, … In the front row, letters spelled out the name of the Cut! collective, chosen as an acronym for “Cinéma united pour la transition”. The same day, the collective published a forum in the pages of Le Monde, “so that the 7ᵉ art urgently put itself at the service of ecology”.

The collective Cut! is supported by more than 400 film professionals, including Natalie Portman, Isabelle Adjani, Louis Garrel, Eric Toledano, Emmanuelle Bercot and by the musician Matthieu Chedid, as the author of film music.

Based on the principle that "the climate is changing at full speed" and that "cinema is a polluting and extractive industry", the collective calls for action in favor of the climate by minimizing the ecological footprint of the industry, "maximizing the distribution works whose priority is the societal impact" and "write stories that allow you to project yourself into a more just and sustainable model of society".

On the collective's digital platform, the signatories' objective shows an 80% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from the film industry by 2025. This horizon line should allow the industry to reach the carbon neutrality and thus comply with the Paris Agreements across its economic sector.