Cannes's badge system remains the same this year. So does the need to change.

This year’s Cannes Film Festival is just over. However, despite its small improvements such as adding additional screenings, the condition remained the same: people with lower badges had to waste a lot of time for a screening. The master class with Christopher Nolan reached a high point, as hundreds of people lining for hours in cramped stairs and hallways with no hope to get in. You can imagine how people feel. People wondered why Cannes couldn’t just put a stop sign somewhere in the line and tell the rest to stop wasting their time. The answer is caste system: since Cannes’s staffs have to guarantee seats for higher-badge critics, who usually come in the last minute, they can’t tell how many seats are available until right before the screening. Not to mention Cannes still left under-utilized rooms empty while keeping critics out in the hot sun or rain. It is the shame that Cannes tried to brand itself as socially progressive this year, while maintaining an unjust caste system that creates bad working conditions. Cannes needs to change. Thanks to your support, we are building up the momentum, as more and more people in the festival have started talking and thinking about change. Please continue to help sharing the petitions so that more pressure will be put on Cannes to abolish the caste system! Rubing Liang & Zishun Ning 今年的戛纳电影节刚刚结束。尽管电影节作出一些小的提升，比如增加额外的放映场次，但是总体的状况仍然维持不变：持低级证件的记者仍然要浪费大量时间排队看片。这种状况在克里斯托弗·诺兰的大师班达到了的“高潮”：数百名记者挤在楼梯和走廊长达数小时，结果大部分都未能进去。你可以想象人们当时的心情是怎样。 大家会问，为何戛纳不能简单做到在队伍中间放一个“座位已满”的牌子、然后叫剩下的人不用再浪费时间等候？原因就在于等级制。戛纳的员工要保证高级证件的记者有座位，而高级证件的记者又通常踏准点才到。所以戛纳在直到影片放映的前一刻，根本不能告诉其余记者到底有多少剩余的座位。更不用提戛纳仍然宁愿让影评人们在室外日晒雨淋，也不好好利用空置的放映厅。戛纳今年大搞面子工程标榜自己在社会问题上的进步，但同时又继续实行等级制保持记者糟糕的工作环境，这简直是个耻辱。 戛纳需要改变。因为有你的支持，我们的运动有了势头，在电影节期间也有越来越多的人开始讨论和想改变。请继续帮忙发散我们的请愿书，让更多人知道，对戛纳造成更多压力，推动它废除等级制！ 梁茹冰，宁子舜