At the Cannes Festival, Behind the Beautiful Speeches, Politics Under the Carpet

Ukraine, Gaza, anti-Trump talk... If this 2025 edition seems ultrapoliticized, behind the scenes, the precarious workers of the Festival feel a hardening of their freedom of speech in the name of "security".

Among foreign stars who often make social and political statements, we will focus on five historic political speeches at film festivals. What are the words of five people who changed society, including the full translation of Robert De Niro's much talked about speech at Cannes?