Watch: Meryl Streep, Jane Fonda walk Cannes red carpet as film festival opens

Cannes Film Festival opened on Tuesday as the festivals 77th edition got underway

The Cannes Film Festival kicks off with actors and directors posing for photographs along the carpet before making their way up the stairs of the Palais des Festivals et des Congres for a ceremony where Streep was presented with an honorary Palme d’Or. 

Messi, the border collie who starred in the 2023 Palme d’Or winner, Justine Triet’s “Anatomy of a fall”, also made an appearance in the carpet.