A power cut in southern France caused by suspected sabotage has disrupted screenings on the final day of the Cannes Film Festival. About 160,000 homes in the city of Cannes and surrounding areas lost power early on Saturday, before supply was restored in the afternoon.

An arson attack and damage to a transmission tower cut off power in the area, the authorities said. The festival’s closing ceremony on Saturday is scheduled to proceed normally.

Suspected vandalism knocked out power to the French Riviera town Cannes on the final day of its film festival on Saturday, but organisers said the show would go on at their glitzy closing ceremony. A suspected arson attack on a local substation and the sabotage of an electricity pylon along the coast were blamed for the more than five-hour outage.