The 70th Annual Cannes Film Festival held a moment of silence at 3 PM today to honor the victims of the bombing in Manchester, England. A fireworks display was also cancelled. Festival head Thierry Fremaux stated,“We are a festival of peace and sharing. The people who were at the concert last night were doing nothing different from what we’re doing here: being together, enjoying freedom, loving and sharing passions. In honor of and with a thought for the victims… and all of our British friends, and to think once again (of those) in France, in Belgium, in Germany, in the United States or in England and everywhere else — in Pakistan and Syria — to all who are victims of this absurdity, this warfare, we observe a minute of silence.â€
