Jafar Panahi on 25 May 2010, after three months imprisonment in Tehran. Photograph: Str/EPAThe big story
The award-winning film-maker Jafar Panahi was jailed for six years after the Iranian authorities found him guilty of "propaganda against the system". A vocal supporter of the green uprising that followed Iran's disputed 2009 election, Panahi has also been banned from directing or producing films for 20-years. Writing on the film blog, Peter Bradshaw paid tribute to Panahi's life and work and called for "a protest retrospective" at the BFI Southbank. Elsehwere cinema organisations posted an online petition, protesting the film-maker's innocence and calling for his immediate release. The likes of Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, Juliette Binoche and Francis Ford Coppola have already spoken out in Panahi's defence.
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• Great movie posters: how Black Swan raised the bar
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• On the Film Weekly podcast, Jason Solomons hooks up with Andrew Garfield, star of The Social Network, Never Let Me Go and the forthcoming reboot of the Spider-Man franchise
• Gulliver's Travels star Billy Connolly tells Sarah Philips why he 'wanted to be like Prince Charles'
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• ... and Peter Bradshaw reviews Little Fockers, Gulliver's Travels and The Way Back
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