Hisko Hulsing's short film *Danse macabre*, a Dutch-French-Belgian-Hungarian co-production inspired by the rise of fascism in Europe, was not given a fair chance at the premiere in Annecy because protesting visitors drowned out the applause with booing regarding the use of Generative AI. Hulsing pointed out that eighty people worked on the film for years and that GenAI, via Stable Diffusion, was merely one tool used to add his painting style as texture to computer-animated extras, while the festival itself responded with a statement condemning the protest but failing to take a clear stance on GenAI, something animation association Les Intervalles has long been advocating.