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Mina has decided to leave her older husband Morteza after ten years of marriage. Next Monday will be her divorce date, which means her first step towards her goal; immigration. However, the arrival of her older sister, Azar, together with the illness of her mother in law is causing her trouble. To her surprise, meanwhile, she finds out she is pregnant.

Canaan.2008.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

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Runtime:	1h 45mn
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https://nitro.download/view/7DA108FFD643221/Canaan.2008.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language(s):Persian
Subtitles:English, Arabic, Persian

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Amir has always wished to travel to Abadan and now in his elderly days he wants to materialise his wish, but before doing so he needs to return a package to a friend. In this process he goes missing. Marjan, a middle-aged, middle-class Tehran resident and Amir’s daughter, is distraught when her father goes missing. She goes to see her estranged husband, Aman, who reluctantly agrees to look for Amir, while Marjan watches over Aman’s house, which is being renovated. Aman enlists the aid of his old friend, Atta, and the two drive off in search of Amir, who presumably took off to find an old friend whom he seems to have forgotten died years earlier.

Abadan.mkv

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Runtime: 	1h 21mn
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https://nitro.download/view/E24997A7C1F57B0/Abadan.mkv

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

The post Mani Haghighi – Abadan (2004) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Hasan is seething with rage. A blacklisted director, it’s been years since he was allowed to shoot a film. The actress he has made a star and with whom he is in love now wants to make a film with another director. He and his wife have drifted apart and his daughter is also about to cut the cord. Moreover, his old mother who lives with them appears to be losing her mind. Worst of all, however, is that in Tehran and its environs, filmmakers are being murdered. But why is the serial killer ignoring him of all people? Hasan is crushed: isn’t he the best filmmaker in town? Why isn’t he being beheaded? His frustration is exacerbated when, as a result of a series of bizarre misunderstandings, he becomes the prime suspect. There’s a frenzy of running commentaries on social media and his popularity is plummeting by the minute. Hasan needs a diabolical plan to restore his reputation.In Khook, narcissism and vanity run riot in all manner of forms, and punishment follows swiftly. And all of this without a trace of malicious glee. Instead, this turbulent comedy morphs into an enigmatic psychological portrait of a tortured, offended artistic soul and the eternal child in man.

4.46GB | 1h 48m | 1920×960 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/5B661D54EBA15AF/Khook.2018.1080p.MUBI.WEB-DL.AAC2.0.x264-CMYK.mkv

Language(s):Persian
Subtitles:English,German

The post Mani Haghighi – Khook AKA Pig (2018) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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An orange Chevrolet Impala drives across a cemetery towards an abandoned shipwreck in the middle of a desert landscape. It is the 22nd of January, 1965. The day before, the Iranian prime minister was shot dead in front of the parliament building.

1.58GB | 1 h 43 min | 1027×428 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/DE5EC960A0E7A66/Ejdeha.Vared.Mishavad.AKA.A.Dragon.Arrives.2016.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language:Persian
Subtitles:English, French, German

The post Mani Haghighi – Ejdeha Vared Mishavad! AKA A Dragon Arrives! (2016) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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A bare bones synopsis of this film might lead you to expect that it is lethally boring. Four middle aged buddies are returning to Tehran from a trip to the mountains, trying to get back in time to watch an important soccer match on TV. Their homeward journey grinds to a halt when they round a curve in the highway and are confronted by a natural monolith, a 10 foot high, narrow rock formation, projecting straight up out of the ground, overlooking the canyon below. They spend the rest of the movie trying to topple it. Hmmmmm. Not a narrative arc that causes gooseflesh exactly, am I right? What makes this short movie almost spellbinding instead has nothing to do with the rock, but everything to do with the etchings of character that unfold as each man reacts to the circumstances, and they all kill a lot of time just doing guyspeak, largely about their women, past and present. Fleshing out that theme, one might say, are appearances by two of the women in their lives who – either inadvertently or by design – show up at the rock project. They too prove to be intriguing and contrasting personalities.

This film, based on a story by Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami, is reminiscent of the work of John Cassavetes, and, like his films, this one is not for everyone’s taste. (IMDB )

Mani Haghighi - (2006) Men at Work.mkv

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Runtime: 	1h 14mn
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https://nitro.download/view/EB8E0C57FB95BF5/Mani_Haghighi_-_(2006)_Men_at_Work.mkv

Language(s):Persian
Subtitles:English hardcoded

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