The Cannes Film Festival wants more details about Trump’s customs duties
Thierry Fremaux, director of the Cannes Film Festival, who will gather movie legends this week, said on Monday that he needed more details before he began discussing customs duties on films produced outside the USA, proposed by President Donald Trump. The day before the festival’s start, journalists asked Fremaaux what he could tell Trump in about the threat of a 100 percent duty’s introduction. « It is very difficult to answer this question based on the announcement of the US president, whom we have been used to in the last three months, and then contradicts himself. I do not know what to say, » he said.
Fremaux is not the only one – many in the film industry are upset and confused after Trump’s statement, and for now there has been very few details about how such a levy work.
However, he pointed out that Trump’s argumentation – if the US film industry would die « very fast death » because of the incentives that other countries offer to attract filmmakers could serve as an initial point.
« The idea that foreign countries would punish American cinema, I think this is a topic that is worth discussing, » Fremaaux said.
The 78th Cannes Film Festival should start on Tuesday night by the comedy Amelie Bonnin « Leave One One Day, » which is the first time the festival has been opening a filmmaker’s debut.
Film legends, from Tom Cruise to Denzela Washington, will gather this week in Cannes at a time when the industry is trying to eliminate concern about the declining audience and threat of US customs.
World policy entered the program
Cruise will present the latest continuation of his franchise « impossible mission », which is said to be the last.
Robert De Niro will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award, and the acting stars Scarlett Johansson, Kristen Stewart and Harris Dickinson will try in directing waters with films competing in smaller categories.
American director Wes Anderson will launch his new film « The Phoenician Scheme), which will compete with independent films, including films such as » Sentimental Value « by Joachim Triera and » Alpha « Juliet Ducournau.
At the same time, many hoped to follow the path of last year’s winner of the Cannes Main Award, the Golden Palm. Specifically, the movie « Anora » later won five Oscars later.
The best movie of Cannes in 2023, « Anatomy Falls, » won one Oscar, and the best movie in 2019, « The Parasit, » became the first movie that was not English, which won the Oscar for Best Picture.
Although the Hollywood concerns are about the customs of the topic of the curtain conversations and are not in the spotlight, world policy has nevertheless entered the program.
Three films about the war in Ukraine will be shown as part of the « Ukrainian Day » event.
In addition, all the screenings of the movie « Put your soul and walk » (Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk) are sold out, following the 25-year-old Palestinian photojournalist Fatma Hasson, who was killed at the Gaza air attack in April in April, the day after it was announced that the documentary was selected for the Acid program.
