Cannes to Screen Films by Convicted Iranians

     New films by two convicted Iranian directors, Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof, will be shown at this month's Cannes film festival in France.

    Festival organizers said Saturday that Panahi's In Film Nist (This is Not a Film) will be screened on May 20.

    Rasoulof's Be Omid-e Didar (Hope to See You Again) will be shown on May 14.

    An Iranian court in December sentenced both filmmakers to six years in prison on charges that included making propaganda against Iran's Islamic regime.  Both were banned from making movies for 20 years.  They are free on bail¹ pending² an appeal, but forbidden to travel abroad.

    Cannes officials did not say how they received the films, only that they had arrived in recent days.

    They described the films as having been made in "semi-clandestine conditions."The festival on the French Riviera runs May 11-22.(本文由在线英语听力室整理编辑)

1 bail   

v.舀（水），保释；n.保证金，保释，保释人

参考例句：

• One of the prisoner's friends offered to bail him out.犯人的一个朋友答应保释他出来。
• She has been granted conditional bail.她被准予有条件保释。

2 pending   

prep.直到，等待…期间；adj.待定的；迫近的

参考例句：

• The lawsuit is still pending in the state court.这案子仍在州法庭等待定夺。
• He knew my examination was pending.他知道我就要考试了。