The annual film festival in the French Riviera resort was postponed due to the Covid-19 lockdown
The Palais des Festivals should be preparing to welcome the hottest names in cinema onto its red carpet. Instead the Cannes Film Festival venue is opening its doors to the town’s homeless who have nowhere to go during the coronavirus lockdown.
The annual film festival in the palm-fringed French Riviera resort had been due to take place from May 12-23 but last week organizers postponed the event until late June. The festival hall opened its doors to the destitute on Friday according to Dawn News.
“We have between 50 and 70 people here every night,” said Dominique Aude-Lasset, an official at Cannes Town Hall.
At the entrance, a worker in a face mask takes the temperature of each homeless person each time they enter the site. Inside, there is an eating area, shower block and communal space with television and games. In a cavernous, low-ceiling room, camp-beds are set up in three long lines.
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