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A rapids in southeastern France have temporarily disrupted the screenings on the last day of the Cannes film festival.
About 160,000 houses in the city of Cannes and the surrounding municipalities lost the current on Saturday, said the French electricity operator RTE.
The police are investigating a possible arson attack as the main cause of the incident.
Organizers of the International Film Festival say that the final ceremony will continue as planned because they have an alternative power supply.
The power cut influence influenced 160,000 houses in the Alpes-Maritimes area. According to RTE, the delivery was restored at 3:00 PM local time (11:00 GMT).
In Cannes, shops and restaurants had difficulty operating during the cut.
“Another hour and I throw everything away,” Laurent Aboukrat, who owns the Jamin restaurant of Canne, told AFP News Agency. He said his refrigerators have been eliminated since the morning
“Cannes is in a total delay, collapse, there is no coffee anywhere, and I think the city no longer has croissants, so this is as a crisis area,” the Australian producer Darren Vukasinovic told the Reuters news agency.
The police are investigating a possible arson attack from a power substation. “We investigate the chance that a fire will be started deliberately,” a spokesperson for the Gendarmerie told Reuters.
Saturday is the last day of the Cannes film festival. The French actress Juliette Binoche and her jury will announce the winner of the Palme d’Or – the highest prize awarded at the festival.
Various impressions were interrupted by the cut in the morning, before organizers were able to switch to private generators.
