Iranian artists denounce violence in the cinema world
Iranian actress Taraneh Alidoosti at the Cannes Film Festival, May 21, 2016. REUTERS / Regis Duvignau
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In Iran, some 170 female artists and filmmakers have signed a joint letter to denounce "
systematic sexual violence and pressure
" committed by their male colleagues.
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With our correspondent in Tehran,
Siavosh Ghazi
The publication of this letter is a first.
She denounces violence of all kinds such as fondling, verbal abuse, salary deductions and even rape in the film industry against women artists.
The signatories ask for the creation of an independent committee within the "Maison du cinema", the official trade union, to look into and investigate this violence.
A first for Iranian cinema
On
her Instagram page
, actress
Taraneh Alidoosti
denounces this violence: “
The question of acting against violence and rape against women is a question on a global scale.
More than laws, which are certainly necessary, I think we need to change people's mentalities and culture.
»
In recent years, women artists have individually denounced this violence, but this is the first time that such a campaign has been launched by so many artists, like the #Metoo movement in the United States.
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