French movie stars, together with Isabelle Huppert, Juliette Binoche and Marion Cotillard, have minimize locks of their hair in an Instagram video printed on Wednesday in solidarity with ladies protesters in Iran.
Charlotte Rampling and Jane Birkin, two stars with shut ties to France, additionally appeared within the video.
It got here a day after greater than 1,000 French movie professionals, together with actor Lea Seydoux and Cannes Movie Competition head Thierry Fremaux, signed a petition “supporting the revolt by ladies in Iran”.
Girls eradicating their headscarves and slicing their hair has been a key picture of the protests in Iran that broke out final month.
They have been sparked by the dying of a younger lady, Mahsa Amini, following her arrest by Iran’s “morality police” who implement Iran’s strict costume code that requires ladies to cowl their hair in public.
“The Iranian individuals, with ladies in entrance, are risking their lives to protest. These individuals need solely probably the most primary freedoms. These ladies, these males, deserve our assist,” stated a message accompanying the video on Instagram.
The marketing campaign was launched by a gaggle of attorneys.
“It’s not possible to not denounce, once more and all the time, this horrible repression,” their message added.
