Since women are banned from soccer matches, Iranian females masquerade as males so they can slip into Tehran’s stadium to see the game between Iran and Bahrain. The ones who are caught and arrested are taken to a holding area and guarded by soldiers. One sympathetic soldier agrees to watch the game through a peephole and recount the action to the impatient fans.

Offside (2006) Jafar Panahi - 1080p.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/92939DBB0D687D5/Offside_(2006)_Jafar_Panahi_-_1080p.mkv

Language(s):Farsi
Subtitles:English, German, Turkish

Many thanks to @Marcio for this copy.

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When an auto mechanic encounters the man who may have been his torturer in prison, he kidnaps him to exact vengeance. But since the sole clue to Eghbal’s identity is the squeak of his prosthetic leg, Vahid turns to other now-freed victims for confirmation. And the danger only escalates.

	
It.Was.Just.An.Accident.2025.720p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.H.264-WADU.mkv

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Language(s):Persian
Subtitles:English

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Featuring seven stories from seven auteurs from around the world, the film chronicles this unprecedented moment in time, and is a true love letter to the power of cinema and its storytellers.

Life by Jafar Panahi
Night Colonies by Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Dig Up My Darling by David Lowery
Sin Titulo by Dominga Sotomayor
The Break Away by Anthony Chen
Terror Contagion by Laura Poitras
Little Measures by Malik Vitthal

The.Year.of.the.Everlasting.Storm.2021.1080p.WEBRip.DD5.1.x264-NOGRP.mkv

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https://nitro.download/view/531B41D6AD97011/The.Year.of.the.Everlasting.Storm.2021.1080p.WEBRip.DD5.1.x264-NOGRP.mkv

Language(s):English, Iranian, Thai, Spanish, Chinese
Subtitles:English (Softcoded)

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Follow two parallel love stories in which the partners are thwarted by hidden, inevitable obstacles, the force of superstition, and the mechanics of power.

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They say girls come from the left side of the man.

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Why make a movie? Why watch one? As banal as these questions are, they’re also unsettling. The world is so flooded with images that making sense of what’s already there can feel paralyzing; adding something new can seem like the very definition of absurdity. Sentimentality about the power of cinema — to raise awareness, expand empathy, confront the truth, change the world — mirrors a cynicism that insists on cinema’s triviality.

It’s only a movie! That’s as true of “No Bears” as of anything else, but there may be no living filmmaker who has considered the practical and philosophical implications of the art form — the work of shooting and cutting; the pleasure and anxiety of watching — as rigorously or as insightfully as the Iranian director Jafar Panahi.

He can’t be accused of taking movies lightly, or of taking himself too seriously. He has continued to practice his craft, conscientiously and playfully, at the risk of his comfort, his freedom and possibly his life. When in 2010 the Iranian government banned him from directing, he answered with “This Is Not a Film,” a feature-length video diary shot partly on an iPhone and technically not “directed” at all.

In the years since, he has continued in that vein of clandestine metacinema, playing himself (in “Closed Curtain” and “Taxi”) less as a heroic auteur than as a curious, gentle, sometimes foolish middle-aged family man who can’t break the habit of turning life into film (or, to be precise, digital video). His movies are personal and also political, as he aims his quizzical gaze at the petty hypocrisies and large injustices of modern Iran, as well as at the paradoxes of his own creative practice.

Not long after “No Bears” was completed — it was filmed in secret earlier this year — Panahi was sentenced in Iran to six years in prison. In the months since, mass protests challenging the authority of the Islamic Republic have swept across the country and have been answered with brutal repression.

The movie doesn’t explicitly address the unrest or any other public matters; Iranian filmmakers tend to deal with potentially controversial issues obliquely, walking the line between realism and fable and trusting audiences to understand the implications of their stories, subtle messages that censors might overlook. Panahi pioneered this approach in the early 2000s — while also testing its limits — confronting misogyny and class inequality in films like “The Circle,” “Crimson Gold” and “Offside.” Since the ban, as his work has reflected his own predicament, he has found new ways to combine social criticism with self-criticism.

~ A.O. Scott

Khers nist AKA No Bears (2022).576p.BDRip.Iran_KG.mkv

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Language(s):Turkish,Persian,Azerbaijani
Subtitles:English, English SDH (SRT & SUP Muxed as Optional)

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A girl in traditional female clothing, and her arm in plaster, comes out of school one day and doesn’t find her mother meeting her. She decides to travel home her self though she doesn’t know her address and remembers the road only visually

3.69GB | 1h 34m | 1920×1080 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/ACF1550F6300B72/Ayneh.AKA.The.Mirror.1997.1080p.MUBI.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.x264-TYTZ.mkv

Language(s):Persian
Subtitles:English

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Jafar Panahi sets out to find a young woman with a golden voice that has been forbidden to sing by Iranian authorities.

693MB | 18m 19s | 1920×960 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/89240101EAB1B55/Hidden.2020.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.H.264.mkv

Language(s):Persian
Subtitles:English, French, Spanish, German (muxed)

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The title of “This Is Not a Film” is itself a bitter joke on the illogic of totalitarian thinking. The acclaimed Iranian director Jafar Panahi has been banned by the state from all filmmaking activities for 20 years and, when we see him in this footage shot in 2011, he’s appealing a six-year prison sentence for “assembling and colluding with the intention to commit crimes against the country’s national security.” He is not allowed to make a film. Therefore, this is not a film.

What is it, then? One day in the life of a bored and stymied 50-year-old man who can’t leave his house. A deflected plea for the freedom to speak, to create, to live. An attempt to tell the story of the movie the Iranian government won’t let him make. A portrait of an imploding country as seen from a Tehran balcony.

In short, “This Is Not a Film” is the world within an apartment, and it is quietly devastating.

1.17GB | 1h 14m | 1024×576 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/498A83698D398F8/This.Is.Not.a.Film.2011.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

Language(s):Persian
Subtitles:English

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