The current 76th Cannes Film Festival 2023 officially began on Tuesday, May 16 at 19:00 in the world-famous French city on the Mediterranean coast.

" The meaning of the existence of this festival was and remains the rise of freedom, courage, creativity, freedom to express the strength and fragility of our existence" They were announced by the host of the opening ceremony of the Cannes Film Festival, Chiara Mastroianni (by the way, she is the daughter of iconic actor Marcello Mastoiani and actress Catherine Deneuve).

Ms. Deneuve herself, during her own speech, invited the audience to think about the war in Ukraine by reading a poem by Lesya Ukrainka, this very moment the publication calls one of the most beautiful moments of the ceremony..

“I have no share, no will,.

Only hope remained alone:.

Hope to return once again to Ukraine,.

Take another look at the native land,.

Take another look at the blue Dnipro, -.

There live or die, it's all the same for me;

Take another look at the steppe, the graves,.

Rise up and guess sticks of nasty things....

I have no share, no will,.

Only one hope remained, ”the icon of French cinema so sadly proclaimed the poetry that the Ukrainian writer composed in Lutsk in 1880.

At the end of the iconic film event, the presenter shared a quote from American director George Cukor: “Cinema is like love when it’s good, it’s beautiful, when it’s bad, it’s still not bad”.