Red Carpet Arrival: Participants in "Parcours des Femmes" (Women's Careers) Seminar
The Daily

22 actresses, women filmmakers, and women film producers from Southern Hemisphere countries climbed the red-carpeted steps of the Palace tonight, as part of the conclusion of the "Parcours de Femmes" seminar on women's careers in film, a Festival de Cannes initiative. Thierry Frémaux greeted actresses Fatoumata Coulibaly (Mali), Awatif Na'Eem (Iraq), and Naky Sy Savané (Côte d'Ivoire), and filmmakers Angèle Diabang Brener (Senegal), Mati Diop (Senegal), Taghreed Elsanhouri (Sudan), Rakhsan Bani Etemad (Iran), Dyana Gaye (Senegal), Nadine Labaki (Lebanon), Osvalde Lewat (Cameroon), Angie Mills (South Africa), Teona S. Mitevska (Macedonia), Tan Chui Mui (Malaysia), Lucia Murat (Brazil), Joséphine Ndagnou (Cameroon), Ingrid Sinclair (Zimbabwe), Rahel Tewelde (Eritrea), Moufida Tlatli (Tunisia), and Ishtar Yasin (Costa Rica). Women producers Marianne Khoury (Egypt) and Bridget Pickering (Namibia) were also invited to Cannes.