The terrorist attack on satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo continues to cast a shadow over France — and the Cannes Film Festival.
One movie getting attention in the festival’s movie marketplace is a documentary about the publication, “I Am Charlie.”
It also spurred a debate about the limits of freedom of speech that saw some criticize the magazine’s decision to run caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad that offended many Muslims.
The directors say Charlie Hebdo’s journalists “were on the front line of a hazardous fight to defend what makes us what we are, deep down inside: freedom of speech, or even more so, freedom to laugh.”
Paris-based Pyramide Films is marketing the movie in Cannes.
