Cannes 2025, May 24 -- Despite the massive power outage that hit the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday morning, the closing ceremony - which is scheduled to take place today evening - will be held as planned.

The Cannes, in a statement announced that the closing ceremony will "proceed as planned," and that it had "switched to an independent power supply" to tackle the outage. All events taking place inside the Palais will also proceed as normal, as per the statement.

Around 10:15am Saturday morning, Cannes was hit by the power outage, owing to the massive power cut in the French Alpes-Maritimes region. The whole town of Cannes was out of electricity, with lights going off in shops and restaurants that could only accept cash payments as a...