CANNES, France: Acclaimed Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev urged President Vladimir Putin to end the “carnage” in Ukraine on Saturday after his new movie set during the war came runner-up at the Cannes Film Festival. “Millions of people on both sides of the line of contact now dream of only one thing: that the massacres finally stop,” he said in his acceptance speech at the awards ceremony in Cannes. “And the only person who can put an end to this meat grinder is you...

Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev (May 19, 2026) sent shock waves through the Cannes Film Festival with a soberly damning crime film about murder and corruption in Russia, set…

« Des millions de gens de part et d’autre de la ligne de front ne rêvent que d’une chose, que les massacres cessent », a déclaré le réalisateur lors de son discours de…