Women from French feminist group Les Colleuses walk the red carpet at the premiere of “Holy Spider” at Cannes Film Festival

Women from the French feminist group Les Colleuses walked the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival’s ‘Holy Spider’ premiere. Dressed in black, they let out black smoke and held up a long banner with 129 names – from Women who died in France from domestic violence, murders against women, from the last Cannes to the present.

Based on true events, director Ali Abbasi’s new film “Holy Spider” tells the story of a female journalist who travels to the Iranian city of Mashhad to track down a man who murders a local prostitute and thinks he’s “cleaning the streets.”

According to sources, the protest has nothing to do with “Holy Spider” propaganda, but echoes the documentary “Riposte” about women’s rights activism, which was also screened in Cannes last Sunday.