Juliette Binoche, Cannes jury president, faced backlash for sidestepping a question regarding her lack of support for an open letter condemning silence over Palestinian photojournalist Fatma Hassona's death. During the festival’s opening ceremony, Binoche eloquently honored Hassona, discussing her tragic death and reciting a poem written by Hassona about mortality. Binoche emphasized the responsibility of artists to acknowledge suffering and engage actively in social issues, urging a transformation in human values to foster compassion amid despair.
On the 16th of last April, at dawn in Gaza, at the age of 25, the photojournalist Fatma Hassona and ten of her relatives were killed by a missile that struck their house.
Artists have the possibility to bear witness for others. The higher the level of suffering, the more vital their involvement. Wars, miseries, climate change, misogyny - our barbarism's demons give us no respite.
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