دومین دکترای محسن مخملباف تقدیم به شهدای جنبش سبز

www.makhmalbaf.com English Translation: دانشگاه نانتق پاریس که دومین دانشگاه بزرگ کشور فرانسه است روز 5 شنبه 18 نوامبر امسال (2010) دکترای افتخاری سینما را به محسن مخملباف اهدا کرد.وی پیش از این دکترای افتخار ادبیات را از دانشکده سنت اندروز اسکاتلند دریافت کرده بود. Mohsen Makhmalbaf dedicated his honorary doctorate award to the martyrs of green movement: Ladies and gentlemen, Honourable professors! I would have preferred to talk about art and cinema only, but how could I possibly forget my fellow filmmakers, and their difficult situation in Iran, today. The Iranian filmmaker places the cinema as a mirror in front of the society, in order to bring people back to its own truth, the people who has been bombarded with lies by the state television and state cinema. Indeed, it is the Iranian filmmaker’s realism, which sends him in the prison. It is his very realism which condemns the Iranian filmmaker to censorship. It is indeed, this realism which costs the Iranian filmmaker, his or her passport. Finally, it is this very realism, which brands the Iranian filmmaker with the exile. This is the reality of cinema, today, in Iran. Those of us who have remained in Iran are not only subjected to censorship, but constantly risk of arrest, and torture. And those filmmakers who migrated, although attaining a degree of personal freedom, but suffer other hardships for the creation of their poetical art. If the Iranian filmmakers are crushed under ideological censorship in their own …