I took this picture, many years ago during Montreal International Film Festival.
Recently, the regime in Iran has sentenced this internationally acclaimed filmmaker, Jafar Panahi, to six years in jail and 20 years of silence!

If they’d asked the broken bones in Victor Jara’s fingers,
If they’d asked the bullets that blew Lorca’s brain out,
They would’ve known that an artist can be murdered, but cannot be silenced!