On Saturday night, on the red carpet at the Cannes Film Festival, 82 women intend to make a dramatic statement about how difficult it is to ascend professionally in the film industry.

The group—planned to include actresses like Kristen Stewart, Jane Fonda, Marion Cotillard, and Salma Hayek, directors such as Patty Jenkins, Ava DuVernay, and Haifaa Al Mansour, agents like CAA’s Hylda Queally and Maha Dakhil, and other cinema professionals such as Telluride Film Festival programmer Julie Huntsinger, and journalist Melissa Silverstein—will climb the steps that lead to the festival’s Théâtre Debussy, pause and stand motionless and silent facing the Palais. The intention, organizers say, is to express how hard it still is to climb the social and professional ladder as women in the film industry. Among the women, Cate Blanchett and Agnès Varda will read a statement.

The number of participants is deliberate. Since the launch of the Cannes Film Festival, only 82 films directed by women have been honored by an official selection in competition, compared to 1,645 films directed by men, a ratio of less than 5 percent. The red-carpet statement will unfold ahead of the gala premiere of the only Frenchwoman director with a film in competition, Eva Husson, whose movie, Girls of the Sun, is about a Kurdish female battalion.

“I hope this Cannes is going to initiate conversations that we need to have,” Husson said, in an interview with Vanity Fair before the festival began. “It’s high time. It’s healthy. It’s scary. It’s exploding in the face of a lot of people. The patriarchy has not seen it coming so they feel really threatened by it. It’s a huge paradigm shift.”

Cannes artistic director Thierry Frémaux alluded to the women’s red-carpet plans during a press conference on Monday, saying that a large group of women were going to do something at the festival Saturday, “to affirm their presence.” The French gender-equality group 50/50 by 2020 and the French directors guild have been working in concert with the festival to plan this event, which requires the use of festival cars to get the women to their red-carpet destination.

The activism will continue on Monday at an event on the beach, where the women will ask Frémaux, as well as the artistic directors of the Directors’ Fortnight and Cannes Critics’ Week sidebars to the festival to sign a programming pledge for parity and inclusion at Cannes going forward.

“This festival has had a very mixed track record—and that’s being generous—related to women, from the starlets who are sent to yachts to meet with rich men to the sexual assaults that have occurred during the festival to its continuous lack of opportunities for women in the main competition,” said Women and Hollywood founder Melissa Silverstein. “That this festival has finally taken note of the huge gender disparity in this business can only help move the dial forward. I’m very emotional right now. I’ll probably be crying the entire time.”

The full list of women who plan to stand Saturday night follows below.