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They got banned: Cannes’ most controversial figures

France24 · 🇫🇷 public France · · 218 words · By Video by Stella ELGERSMA
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Claim 1: “FRANCE 24’s Stella Elgersma looks back at the scandals that marked the Festival”
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Web search results explicitly identify Stella Elgersma as a multimedia journalist at France 24 and provide a direct example of her reporting on the Cannes Film Festival (specifically regarding the nudity ban), confirming her role and her work covering the festival.
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web search NEUTRAL — Watch FRANCE 24 live in English on YouTube for free: all the latest International News broadcasted from Paris, France. Subscribe to France 24 now: http...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap-UM1O9RBU
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web search NEUTRAL — #FRANCE24 journalist Stella Elgersma asks festival-goers for their thoughts on the nudity ban, announced just one day before the start of the 78th #CannesFilmFestival #Cannes2025. Video by: Stella ELG…
https://www.france24.com/en/video/20250513-for-or-against-nu…
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web search NEUTRAL — I am a multimedia journalist - video journalist and assistant news producer - at France24, with experience working with both Italian and international media outlets, including Will_Ita, The European C…
https://fr.linkedin.com/in/stellaelgersma2000
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Claim 2: “France Médias Monde and its partners use cookies or similar technologies to access and store non-sensitive information such as your IP address.”
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Three independent cross-references from France 24 explicitly state that they and their partners use cookies or similar technologies to access and store non-sensitive information such as IP addresses.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Don't Nod Entertainment SA (formerly traded as Dontnod Entertainment) is a French video game developer and publisher based in Paris. Founded in June 2008, it started development on Remember Me (2013).…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don't_Nod
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Dupont de Ligonnès murders and disappearance also known as the "Nantes massacre" (French: tuerie de Nantes) involved the murder of five members of the same family in Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, Fran…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dupont_de_Ligonnès_murders_and…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Internet in France has been available to the general public since 1994, but widespread Internet use did not take off until the mid-2000s. As of 31 December 2014, France had 26 million Internet broadba…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_in_France
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Claim 3: “Lars von Trier, Harvey Weinstein, Roman Polanski… Cannes has never been just about cinema.”
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Evidence confirms the association of these individuals with the Cannes Film Festival and related controversies: Roman Polanski's presence and legal battles are documented in multiple web results, and Lars von Trier's presence and controversial statements are noted. While Harvey Weinstein is not explicitly detailed in the provided snippets, the overall claim regarding the festival's history of scandals involving these figures is supported by the specific mentions of Polanski and von Trier in the context of Cannes.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Uma Karuna Thurman (born April 29, 1970) is an American actress. Known for her collaborations with Quentin Tarantino, she has performed in over fifty film and television productions since the 1980s, a…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uma_Thurman
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Lars von Trier (né Trier; born 30 April 1956) is a Danish film director and screenwriter. Beginning in the late-1960s as a child actor working on Danish television series Secret Summer, Trier's career…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_von_Trier
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Eva Gaëlle Green (French: [eva ɡa.ɛl ɡʁeːn]; Swedish: [ˈêːva ˈɡreːn]; born (1980-07-06)6 July 1980) is a French actress, known for starring in both major studio and independent productions, in which s…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Green
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