The best actress in Cannes, an Iranian who wanted to destroy with a sex video

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"We got it! Zar Amir Ebrahimi's porn CD! Buy it here!" shopkeepers shouted on the corners of Tehran.

In Iran there was no talk of anything else.

just when she stood out.

Overnight, Ebrahimi, star of popular television series, was pushed into social ostracism.

The culprit was someone close to me who committed what we now call

.

But it was she who had to pay and leave the country.

15 years after that setback, Ebrahimí won the

for his role in

.

A film in which the actress, turned into a tenacious journalist, is accountable -in fiction and, metaphorically, in reality- with one of the dark lines of the Islamic Republic.

Her victory clinched

.

In addition to Tsar Amir Ebrahimí, Taraneh Alidustí and Golshifteh Farahaní walked the carpet.

The three shone during the French film show, but the one who did the most, wearing an explosion of dress colors, was Ebrahimí.

In the end, she had to pass.

An Iranian journalist approached the microphone,

, and suddenly years of pain poured out of his mouth: "When that happened I was working hard. The cinema was my only hope. But I never felt that It was ashes. Never, "he stressed, although

.

His allegation did not stop there: "Most thought that, after that, the logical thing was for me to commit suicide. Seen from their point of view, of course those who judged me saw me ashes. And now they believe that I have been reborn from them," he added

"That has never happened because

. The phoenix bird label is pretty, but no. There have been ups and downs in my life, sometimes I have felt that I couldn't take it anymore, that I was sunk, but I have never been a victim ", settled.

Time has passed, and after

, Amir Zar Ebrahimi does not feel ready to forgive those who tried to kill her.

But she has managed to learn a lesson from her experience.

"Now, with social networks, it's even easier to make comments. But some are supportive.

. If the same thing ever happens to someone, they can have me as an example."

All that whirlwind of memories and experiences materialized on stage when the actress collected the award.

"This film talks about women, about their bodies.

," said Ebrahimi, 41.

In reference to her ordeal, she sentenced: "It was a humiliation, but the cinema remained; there was loneliness, but there was a cinema; there was darkness, but there was a cinema. Today I appear before you on a night of joy."

The movie

is a psychological

directed by Ali Abbasí and based on a real case.

Between 2000 and 2001

.

The town is known for hosting the mausoleum of the eighth imam, Reza, one of the most important successors of the Prophet for the Shiites.

is commonly practiced

, seen by many critics as a form of prostitution.

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