The Gardener is a surreal film made using documentary-style techniques via the cameras of father and son (the Makhmalbafs) who go to Israel to learn about a religion (Baha’i faith) that they don’t know much due to its taboo status in the country of both the filmmaker and the faith’s birth – Iran.

6.56GB | 1h 25mn | 1920×1080 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/6679CA569EC2549/the.gardener.2012.1080p.bluray.x264-ghouls.mkv
or
https://fikper.com/cYrBVURJkH/the.gardener.2012.1080p.bluray.x264-ghouls.mkv.html

Language(s):Persian
Subtitles:English

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In this meditation on the history of cinema, contemporary scenes blend with clips from the silent era. A cinematographer (Mehdi Hashemi) consults with the shah of Iran (Ezzatollah Entezami) in an attempt to convince him that cinema is beautiful. Movies are censored, however: the shah bans them himself. But when the shah falls in love with a beautiful silent-film actress (Fatemah Motamed-Aria), he forfeits the throne and crosses into the realm of the movie screen to be with his love.

1.30GB | 1h 28m | 768×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/F1E700075E5DF0E/Once.Upon.a.Time.Cinema.1992.TVRip.MP2.x264-Arya.mkv

Language:Persian
Subtitles:English, Arabic, French, Persian

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Consisting of three separate stories, the director explores “Man” as a theme: birth, life and death, to present a sometimes comic, sometimes tragic portrait of life at the bottom of the socio-economic pile.

Review by Jonathan Rosenbaum:
An impressive, often powerful Iranian feature (1987, 95 min.) by Mohsen Makhmalbaf–who started out as an antishah activist and fiction writer–composed of three sketches dealing with the poor in Tehran (1987). The first, freely adapted from an Alberto Moravia story, follows the appalling misadventures of an impoverished couple with four crippled children as they try to get their fifth and latest child adopted, in the hope that she won’t wind up crippled as well. The second follows the equally pathetic life of a scatterbrained, spastic Jerry Lewis type who devotes his life to caring for his aged and senile mother. (The couple from the first part reappear briefly in this episode.) The third part, shot in film noir style, is largely devoted to the grim fantasies of a clothes peddler who’s afraid of being killed by fellow traffickers. Each episode has a different cinematographer and all are shot very adroitly and fluidly, though the more self-conscious stylistics of the third part sit rather oddly with the first two episodes, which are often much closer to neorealism. According to Makhmalbaf, the film as a whole deals with the three stages of existence–birth, “journey through life,” and death. Critic Gerald Peary has compared the film to Rossellini’s Paisan, and it’s certainly true that the first episode is as wrenching as anything in that film or in Germany, Year Zero. In Farsi with subtitles.

The.Peddler.1987.TVRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

General
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Runtime: 	1 h 27 min
Size: 	1.35 GiB
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Codec: 	x264
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Frame rate: 	24.000 fps
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BPP: 	0.243
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https://nitro.download/view/FE0C71BF02E64C7/The.Peddler.1987.TVRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/AF5E1E608569DA4/The.Peddler.1987.TVRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.srt

Language:Persian
Subtitles:Italian hardsubbed,English

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The President is the story of a dictator of an imaginary country in the Caucasus, who is forced to escape following a coup d’état, and begins a journey to discover his country in the company of his five-year-old grandson. The two travel across the lands that the President once governed. Now, disguised as a street musician to avoid being recognized, the former dictator comes into contact with his people, which he comes to know from a different point of view.

1.18GB | 1h 59mn | 720×388 | avi

https://nitroflare.com/view/DA6AAB34E5C5F5C/the.president.2014.limited.dvdrip.x264-bipolar.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/89828E40FFAE70D/the.president.2014.limited.dvdrip.x264-bipolar.part2.rar

Eng srt:
https://www.opensubtitles.org/en/subtitles/6829005/the-president-en
Portuguese srt:
https://www.opensubtitles.org/en/subtitles/6955516/the-president-pb
Spanish:
https://www.subdivx.com/X6XNTAwNjEyX-the-president-2014-aka-president.html
Turkish:
https://www.opensubtitles.org/en/subtitles/6980812/the-president-tr

Language(s):Georgian
Subtitles:English,Portuguese,Spanish,Turkish

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Summary
The wife of Nasim, an Afghan immigrant in Iran, is gravely ill. He needs money to pay for her care, but his day labor digging wells does not pay enough. A friend connects Nasim to a two-bit promoter who sells tickets to watch Nasim ride a bicycle continuously for a week. The promoter brings in sick and aged spectators, haranguing them to find hope in Nasim’s strength. Aided by his son, who feeds him as he rides, Nasim grinds out the days and shivering nights. Local officials believe this may be a plot and Nasim may be a spy; they try to sabotage him as do those who bet he won’t finish the week. Will desperation alone get Nasim the money? Is any triumph an illusion?

1.31GB | 1 h 22 min | 694×520 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/9F7767B91462D96/Bicycleran.AKA.The.Cyclist.1989.DVDRip.AC3.part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/10D6F93AC6CDBD3/Bicycleran.AKA.The.Cyclist.1989.DVDRip.AC3.part2.rar

Language(s):Farsi
Subtitles:English

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An Iranian actor named Akbar is trying to become a serious actor instead of the clown everyone considers him to be. However financial problems force him to abandon his dream of being an artistic actor. He also has to deal with his family problems and his wife’s inability to become pregnant.

1.42GB | 1h 26mn | 760×570 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/05502E2B7AE5F55/The_Actor_(1993)_–_Mohsen_Makhmalbaf.mkv

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

The post Mohsen Makhmalbaf – Honarpisheh AKA The Actor (1993) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Quote:
The Silence (Sokhout), a startlingly fresh and elegant work, is about a ten-year-old boy, Khorshid, who is blind. Khorshid’s father, in Russia, has abandoned him and his mother, who in order to sustain their existence fishes in the river on which the rural dwelling that includes their threadbare apartment is situated. This woman has no other choice but to rely on Khorshid’s meager income for rent. It is not enough, however, and in a few days’ time they will be evicted by the landlord, a greedy, powerful presence whom we never see except for, once, as a hand knocking at the door. A strange, elliptical film of haunting, limpid visual beauty, The Silence ends with two events: the eviction, as the mother, who is calling for her son, and her one great possession, a wall mirror, symbolic for art and inspiration, that is, humanity’s spirit, are rowed across the river, the mirror’s reflection in the water symbolically linking human spirituality and Nature; and the boy, as usual off on his own, passing forever into a life of the imagination in which he is able to orchestrate sounds in his environment—to which his blindness has made him acutely sensitive and receptive—into a finished piece, one in fact familiar to us as the opening movement of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. Only a fool could miss the social and political implications of such a film, and the government, not at all fooled in this regard, responded brusquely. The Silence was banned in Iran.

https://nitro.download/view/8B54E0184D1257B/Mohsen_Makhmalbaf_-_(1998)_The_Silence.mkv

Language(s):Persian, Tajik, Russian
Subtitles:English

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