Actresses and directors of Spanish cinema cut their hair in solidarity with Iranian women: “Libertad”

Faces appear like those of Penélope Cruz, Elena Anaya, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón or Lucía JiménezThe video inserts a text in which you can read ‘Your fight is our fight’ The gesture of cutting a lock of hair is being used as a symbol of protest throughout the worldIn the video, published on social networks and featuring dozens of women representatives of the national cinema, faces such as those of Penélope Cruz, Elena Anaya, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Lucía Jiménez, Marta Etura, Rosario, Ana Belén Ruth Gabriel or Carmen Machi, among others. Alexandra Jiménez, Juana Acosta, Malena Alterio, Carla Simón, Natalia Verbeke, Kiti Manver, Bárbara Goenaga, Marta Nieto or Cayetana Guillén Cuervo also take part in the three-minute video. . The video inserts a text in which you can read ‘Your fight is our fight’ and the director Isabel Coixet closes it asking for ‘freedom’ (‘freedom’). The gesture of cutting a lock of hair is being used as a symbol of protest throughout the world. At an international level, there have also been protest videos such as the one starring in France by actresses such as Juliette Binoche, Marion Cotillard, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Isabelle Adjani or Charlotte Rampling, among others, as well as singers such as Jane Birkin and Angèle. Case of Mahsa AminiAmini She was arrested on September 13 and died three days after falling into a coma after fainting in a detention center, amid allegations of torture and ill-treatment. The Police have denied the accusations and the Iranian president, Ebrahim Raisi, has promised an investigation. This death has provoked a wave of indignation both in a part of Iranian society, and more unanimously at the international level, with numerous demonstrations within and out of the country. In Madrid, this Thursday a group of protesters have applauded several women who have torn handkerchiefs in front of the Iranian Embassy in the capital in a rally called by Amnesty International to protest the death of the young woman.