Media Against Violence organization issued a statement on Monday slamming the alleged interference of the Iranian state in banning the screening of the movie “Red, White and Green.”
Nader Davoodi, the director of “Red, White and Green,” has been banned from travelling to Lebanon, where his film was set to be screened. Due to the absence of the director from the festival, the organizers decided to remove the movie from the program.
“We condemn the [alleged] interference of the Iranian state in Davoodi’s participation in the Beirut International Film Festival,” the statement said.
The statement also condemned the purported Iranian interference, which led to the Lebanese authorities’ pressuring the event organizers into subjecting the movie to censorship, thus resulting in the screening ban.
The organization also warned against attempts to put the Lebanese regime on the same level with the Iranian one, which is famous for violating freedoms.
The 2010 movie, to be screened as part of the "Middle East Documentary Film Competition," focuses on the violent events of the last three weeks leading up to the June 2009 re-election of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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