内容摘要：A girl runs in front of the recent landslide at Gyalthum, Melamchi, northeast of Kathmandu, Nepal, Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

A girl runs in front of the recent landslide at Gyalthum, Melamchi, northeast of Kathmandu, Nepal, Sunday, Sept. 15, 2024. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

“Yes, this is an ongoing risk,” he says, speaking through an interpreter. “Now it will probably be higher. But the Iran situation is unpredictable. It changes everyday. New politics everyday. So we have to see what happens the day we go back.”EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was first published on Thursday, May 22. On Saturday, Panahi’s “It Was Just an Accident” won the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival. Read more about

Last year, in order to reach Cannes, Panahi’s countryman Rasoulofbefore resettling in Germany. (His film, “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” was ultimately nominated for best international film at the Oscars.) Panahi says they speak every other day. After the premiere of “It Was Just an Accident,” Rasoulof texted Panahi to congratulate him on the moment.Unlike Rasoulof, though, Panahi — whose “No Bears” captured him emotionally gazing across, but not crossing, the border — has no plans to flee.

“I’m flying back to Tehran on Sunday,” he says.“It’s simple. I’m unable to live here,” he elaborates. “I have no ability to adapt to a new country, a new culture. Some people have this ability, this strength. I don’t.”

What Panahi does have, as his latest film shows once again, is the ability to deftly lace complicated feelings of resistance, sorrow and hope into gripping movies of elegant, if heartbreaking, composition.

In “It Was Just an Accident,” which is in competition for the Palme d’Or in Cannes, a man named Vahid (played by Vahid Mobasser) believes he sees his former captor and torturer. Though blindfolded while imprisoned, Vahid recognizes the sound of the man’s prosthetic leg. He abducts him, takes him to the desert and begins to bury him in the ground.The day celebrating Moscow’s defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945 is Russia’s biggest secular holiday. Chinese President Xi Jinping, Brazilian leader Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and others will gather in the Russian capital on Thursday for the 80th anniversary and watch a parade featuring thousands of troops accompanied by tanks and missiles.

Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry urged foreign countries not to send military representatives to take part in the parade, as some have in the past. None is officially confirmed for this year’s event.AP correspondent Charles de Ledesma reports all four international airports around Moscow temporarily suspended flights today as Russian forces intercepted more than 100 Ukrainian drones.

Ukraine will regard the participation of foreign military personnel as “an affront to the memory of the victory over Nazism, to the memory of millions of Ukrainian front-line soldiers who liberated our country and all of Europe from Nazism eight decades ago,” a statement on the ministry’s website said.Security is expected to be tight. Russian officials have warned that internet access could be restricted in Moscow during the celebrations and have told residents not to set off fireworks.