Lebanon banned the screening of an Iranian film showing the anti-government protests in the 2009 elections in Iran following the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The film was to have been screened at the Beirut International Film Festival but the general security informed the organizers that they were forbidden to screen the film. The film called Green Days by Iranian film maker Hana Makhmalbaf shows raw footage of the anti-government protest that erupted and the violent response of the security forces against the demonstrators following Iran's 2009 presidential elections. Makhmalbaf is the daughter of Mohsen Makhmalbaf a close confidante of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi.
