The Cannes film festival has scrapped the screening of the film The Anti-Semite, by controversial French comic Dieudonne, an official said on Thursday.
The film, also called Yahod Setiz, in which Dieudonne takes the main role, was produced by the Iranian Documentary and Experimental Film Center.
The Cannes Film Market called for the film to be dropped from the programme when it heard about it at the beginning of the week. “We ban the presence of all films threatening public order or religious convictions, as well as pornographic films or those inciting violence,” executive director Jerome Paillard said.
The film will not be shown in cinemas but sold over the internet. After images deriding Ausch-witz, it revolves around Dieudonne’s violent and alcoholic character dress-ed as a Nazi officer for a fancy dress party.
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Ronald Reagan blood vial auction cancelled
AN ONLINE auction house has cancelled the sale of a vial containing blood sample of the late US President Ronald Reagan, after his foundation and family criticised the move as invasion into his privacy.
According to the UK based PFC Auctions, the vial containing dried blood sample of Reagan, taken after a 1981 assassination attempt, would now be donated to the Reagan Foundation instead.
Online bidding on the vial, which had reached about $30,000 was suspended following outrage by The Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation. — PTI