BEIRUT: Iran has imposed a travel ban on Iranian director Nader Davoodi to Lebanon, preventing him from participating in the Beirut International Film Festival Monday.

The filmmaker of “Red, White and Green” had planned on screening his 2010 documentary about violence following the country’s contested 2009 re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but has been prevented from doing so by the Iranian authorities, announced the festival’s organizers Sunday.

“The Lebanese censorship authorities told us Friday afternoon we would have to remove Iranian director Nader Davoodi’s film from our program, and then we were informed that he would not be able to travel,” said Colette Naufal, director of the Beirut International Film Festival, now in its 11th year, which runs from Oct. 5 to 13.

Naufal added that she also got word that Iranian Kurdish filmmaker Ibrahim Al-Saaidi, director of "Mandoo," who will be unable attend the festival due to travel difficulties he was experiencing at the moment, without giving any further details.

This comes four months after Iranian director Hana Makhmalbaf's “Green Days,” which also dealt with post-election violence in Iran, was canceled after Lebanese intelligence warned the organizers of the film festival against screening the film.