Pedro Almodóvar, Diego Luna, Gael García Bernal, Andy Muschietti, Juan Antonio Bayona, and four-time Oscar winner Alejandro González Iñárritu are some of the dozens of Hollywood and European directors, producers, and actors who have pledged their support for the Argentine Film and Audiovisual Arts Institute (INCAA) and against cultural reforms in Javier Milei’s “omnibus bill.”

“The survival of the Argentine film industry and the community of cultural workers is currently threatened by the far-right government of Javier Milei,” reads the statement by the film industry collective Cine Argentino Unido (United Argentine Cinema).

The document has also been signed by award-winning film stars like French actress Isabelle Huppert and prestigious directors like Walter Salles, Pablo Larraín, Asif Kapadia, Abel Ferrara, Aki Kaurismäki, and Justine Triet, whose film Anatomy of a Fall was the latest Palme d’Or winner at the Cannes Film Festival.

The bill,........

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