Town of Cannes was hit by a significant energy outage on Saturday morning, simply hours earlier than the movie pageant is about to award this yr’s Palme d’Or.

Round 10:15 a.m., proper because the press convention for Kelly Reichardt’s competitors movie “The Mastermind” was beginning, energy in varied areas of town went out. In accordance with Display, which was first to report information of the outage, the facility additionally went down in a number of screening rooms, halting movies mid-way via. Within the J.W. Marriott on the Croisette, a pageant hub that a number of attendees fled to for web entry, the facility flickered on and off a number of instances.

“An influence outage is at present affecting town of Cannes and surrounding areas,” a consultant for the pageant instructed Selection. “At this stage, the reason for the outage has not but been recognized. Restoration efforts are underway.”

The rep added: “The Palais des Festivals has switched to an impartial energy provide, permitting all scheduled occasions and screenings, together with the Closing Ceremony, to proceed as deliberate and beneath regular circumstances. Nonetheless, screenings on the Cineum have been quickly suspended and can resume as quickly as energy is restored.”

French broadcaster France 3 posted a video to its X account exhibiting attendees navigating the pageant at midnight, saying there had been a “basic energy outage within the metropolis.”

The pageant’s awards ceremony is about to start out on Saturday night time at 6:40 p.m. CET. Jury president Juliette Binoche and members Halle Berry, Jeremy Sturdy, Payal Kapadia, Hong Sansoo, Alba Rohrwacher, Leïla Slimani, Dieudo Hamadi and Carlos Reygadas will hand out the pageant’s high awards.

Selection has reached out to the pageant for remark.

Extra to come back…