Death surrounds Bahman, a director who hasn’t made a film in 24 years (he can’t get past the censors). He’s working on a documentary, for Japanese TV, on Iranian burial practices. On the anniversary of his wife’s death, a hitchhiker tells him a story of spousal abuse and infant mortality, he discovers that someone has been buried in his plot next to his wife, and he needs the help of his attorney, a well-connected fixer. He dreams of death, even as he investigates it for his film. His niece’s husband, a well-known writer, fails to return home; he searches hospitals for an unclaimed body. His heart disease is flaring up. Is he prepared for death? Is that all that’s left?

Review by nunculus @IMDb:
This extraordinarily bizarre film is a triumph of the crushingly personal. Bahman Farmanara, an Iranian filmmaker thwarted in his attempts to make movies for twenty-two years, made his comeback with this autobiographical fragment that literally defies all genre rules–it falls between every imaginable classification stool. Its sole resemblance to other, more celebrated films of the “Iranian New Wave” is in its acute meta-ness. Farmanara, playing himself in the most pained self-portrait of a director since Lucio Fulci’s CAT IN THE BRAIN, finally gets a project past the Iranian censors: a documentary for Japanese TV on Iranian burial rituals. In what at first seems either like a ripoff of Woody Allen, or a parody of TASTE OF CHERRY, Farmanara uses this morbid premise as an excuse to rehearse his own death and burial. What springs from this neurosis is neither funny, exactly, nor poignant. It dances to the beat of its own drummer, as elusive and smokelike in tone as a short story by Bruno Schulz or isaac Babel. One cannot say that Farmanara has shed all the rust of those twenty-two years; or, frankly, that his phlegmatic performance–he looks like Harold Bloom feeling the weight of world literature on his shoulders–works. But as an exemplar of making movies as the voicing of individual feelings and beliefs, SMELL OF CAMPHOR goes to the head of the class.

Smell.of.Camphor.Fragrance.of.Jasmine.2000.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

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Language(s):Persian
Subtitles:English

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Taher Mohebi is a well-known writer who, after witnessing a violent murder, breaks down and spends three years in a mental institution. After release he is told that things are just as they were before, but his relentless hallucinations make him want to return to the institution.

Hekayat-e.darya.AKA.Tale.of.the.Sea.1080p.WEB-DL.H.264-LB.mkv

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Runtime:	1h 34mn
Size:	727 MiB
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Language(s):Persian
Subtitles:None

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Based on a short story by Houshang Golshiri, this film centers around mysterious and chilling events that take place in a village. A group of superstitious inhabitants have erected a scarecrow for protection but soon find themselves terrorized by it.

Quote:
Made at the end of the Shah’s reign, the film offers a metaphorical reflection on power relations — how people create their own idols who turn around to terrorize them. The film’s political message was found so dangerous that it had the dubious honor of being banned both pre and post-revolution. It was presented to great acclaim in Cannes Film Festival’s Critics’ Week section.

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Language(s):Persian
Subtitles:English (Hardcoded)

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