“For freedom”, launches Juliette Binoche, before cutting a lock of hair in front of the camera, in a video broadcast this Wednesday on social networks. Like her, actresses and singers are mobilizing in support of the struggle of Iranian women. There their demonstrations, triggered by the death on September 16 of the young Mahsa Amini, detained by the morality police, were violently repressed.
Marion Cotillard, Angèle, Isabelle Carré, Rebecca Marder, Pomme, Eye Haïdara, Isabelle Huppert, Juliette Armanet, Muriel Robin, Laure Calamy, Jane Birkin and Charlotte Gainsbourg, Berenice Bejo or even Mélanie Laurent and Julie Gayet get their hair cut in this video on the background of beautiful bye Persian cover performed by singer Gandom. They are fifty to sign this manifesto.
“Since Mashga’s death, Iranian women, the women at the head, have been demonstrating at the risk of their lives,” reads the caption.
On Tuesday, nearly a thousand personalities of the French seventh art, including stars such as Léa Seydoux, Isabelle Huppert and Dany Boon, renowned filmmakers or the head of the Cannes Film Festival, Thierry Frémaux, called to “support the revolt of women in Iran “, in a forum sent to AFP.
“Women Life Liberty”
The platform has also been signed by winners of the Palme d’Or, such as Julia Ducournau and Jacques Audiard, of the Golden Lion as Audrey Diwan, and actors as disparate as Marion Cotillard, Camille Cottin, Louis Garrel or Alex Lutz. .
In this call, entitled “Woman, life, freedom”, the slogan of the demonstrations in Iran, the professionals wish to “collectively express (their) support for the Iranian women who are fighting today for their freedom at the risk of their lives, and for the Iranian people who bravely supports their revolt”.
“We call on all those who speak out against the assassination of Mahsa Amini and the massive, brutal and deadly repression ordered by the Iranian authorities, to express loud and clear their solidarity with the Iranian people,” they continue.
The “universal struggle for women, for life and for freedom is also ours.”
Until now, the French art community has been little heard about the protest movement triggered by the death of Mahsa Amini in Tehran.
Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian Kurdish woman, died on September 16, three days after her arrest for violating the Islamic Republic’s strict dress code, which in particular requires women to wear headscarves. Her death sparked a wave of protests in Iran, which were violently suppressed, and demonstrations in solidarity with Iranian women around the world.
Source: BFM TV
