Rumours were buzzing about the likely winners, with a dissident Iranian film, a Ukrainian-directed feature about tyranny and a Scandinavian family drama seen as the frontrunners.
“Another hour and I’ll throw everything away,“ owner of the Jamin restaurant in central Cannes, Laurent Aboukrat, told AFP as the outage stretched into its fifth hour.
Inside the nearby festival headquarters, workers were preparing the red carpet for the closing ceremony where French actor Juliette Binoche and her jury will hand out awards, including the Palme d’Or for best film.
But cinema bible Variety predicted a triumph for Norwegian director Joachim Trier’s “Sentimental Value”, a moving tale about a quietly fractured family starring Elle Fanning.
The cause of the power outage has not been announced, but police sources told AFP it was a fire, probably an arson attack, at an electricity substation.
Amid the glitz and glamour at this year’s politically charged Cannes Festival, the wars in Ukraine and Gaza as well as US President Donald Trump have been major talking-points.
Binoche, “Schindler’s List” star Ralph Fiennes, US indie director Jim Jarmusch and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange -- in town to present a documentary he stars in -- are among the signatories.
Trump’s presidency was denounced by US filmmaker Todd Haynes as “barbaric”, while Chilean-American actor Pedro Pascal admitted it was “scary” to speak out against the Republican leader.
Other awards have already started to be announced.
In the secondary Un Certain Regard section, Chilean filmmaker Diego Cespedes won the top prize for “The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo”, which follows a group of trans women living in a desert mining town in the 1980s.
“I wanted to show that there were no borders in friendship, in love,“ Herzi said.
Icelandic director Hlynur Palmason cast his own pet, Panda, in his poignant story about a couple navigating a separation and the impact on their family.
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