'A Crime to Make a Movie': Iranian Director Gets Six Years in Jail - TIME

'A Crime to Make a Movie': Iranian Director Gets Six Years in Jail - TIME: "Sometimes, the truth hurts; in Iran it can get you locked up. On Monday, Jafar Panahi, director of such widely acclaimed films as The White Ribbon, Mirror, The Circle and Offside, was sentenced to six years in jail after an Iranian court found him guilty of 'colluding in the gathering and making of propaganda against the regime.' He was also forbidden from filmmaking for 20 years."