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A 14-year-old girl in 1948 Palestine watches from a locked pantry as catastrophe consumes her home, in this bold debut from Darin J. Sallam.

Farha.2021.1080p.NF.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.H.264-NTb.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 31 min
Size: 	3.58 GiB
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Resolution: 	1920x1080 
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
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#1:  	Multiple languages 5.1ch E-AC-3 @ 640 kb/s (Arabic, Hebrew)

https://nitro.download/view/859C3E5704E8D60/Farha.2021.1080p.NF.WEB-DL.DDP5.1.H.264-NTb.mkv

Language(s):Arabic, Hebrew
Subtitles:English, Arabic, Arabic SDH, Catalan, Spanish

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Salma, a Palestinian widow – living there for decades – , has to stand up against her new neighbor, the Israeli Defense Minister, when he moves into his new house opposite her lemon grove, on the green line border between Israel and the West Bank. The Israeli security forces are quick to declare that Salma’s trees pose a threat to the Ministers safety and issue orders to uproot them.

Together with Ziad Daud, a young Palestinian lawyer, Salma goes all the way to the Israeli Supreme Court to try and save her trees. Her struggle raises the interest of Mira Navon, the Defense ministers wife, trapped in her new home and in an unhappy life. Despite their differences and the borders between them the two women develop an invisible bond, while forbidden ties grow stronger between Salma and Ziad. Salmas legal and personal journey lead her deep into the complex, dark and sometimes funny chaos of the ongoing struggle in the Middle East, in which all players find themselves alone in their struggle to survive.

Variety Review :
The rare ability to make intelligent, entertaining cinema from hot-button current issues is beautifully illustrated by “Lemon Tree,” a multifaceted drama straddling the Palestinian-Israeli chasm that’s marbled with irony, generosity, anger and pure crowd-pleasing optimism. As in his 2004 hit, “The Syrian Bride,” Israeli helmer Eran Riklis takes a story of border sensitivities but reduces its political components to a simple human level, topped by an outstanding, kudo-worthy perf from Palestinian actress Hiam Abbass. Bafflingly denied a competing slot in Berlin, pic should still bounce into warm upscale distribution, especially in Europe, with positive reviews.

Co-scripting again with Palestinian former journalist Suha Arraf, and working with the same French-German co-producing team, Riklis, whose populist touch stretches back to the 1992 hit “Cup Final,” has come up with another allegorical yarn that packs a much more direct political punch. Though pic plays directly to the pro-Palestinian international gallery, and at popular feeling in many quarters against Israel’s own version of the Berlin Wall, it’s actually an improvement on “Bride” in structure and content. Characters are better balanced and developed, and the script doesn’t feel the need to spell everything out in the cause of evenhandedness.

2.03GB | 1h 46m | 716×464 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/133242CD10EFDC6/LemonTree.mkv

Language:Arabic,Hebrew,English
Subtitles:English, Spanish

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Two childhood friends are recruited for a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv.

995MB | 1h 31m | 846×360 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/780E4F044D0BDF8/Paradise.Now.2005.DVDRip.x264.mkv

Language:Arabic, English
Subtitles:English, Spanish, French

The post Hany Abu-Assad – Paradise Now (2005) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Paradise Now (Arabic: الجنّة الآن‎) is a 2005 film directed by Hany Abu-Assad about two Palestinian men preparing for a suicide attack in Israel. It won a Golden Globe for best foreign language film and was nominated for an Academy Award in the same category.

“The film is an artistic point of view of that political issue,” Abu-Assad said. “The politicians want to see it as black and white, good and evil, and art wants to see it as a human thing.”

2.86GB | 1h 31m | 1280×528 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/448D902284B1B0B/Paradise.Now.2005.720p.WEB-DL.DD5.1.H.264-CtrlHD.mkv

Language:Arabic, English
Subtitles:English (hardcoded)

The post Hany Abu-Assad – Paradise Now (2005) (HD) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A family of Iraqi-Israelis, each with his or her own weaknesses and determination, gathers for an Independence Day picnic. Their background stories are presented, reaching back as little as a few days or as far back as the War of Independence and the old country before that, and interlocking in ways that even they never realize. (IMDb)

1.22GB | 1:38:03 | 672 x 416 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/770DF385A711939/BBQ_People.part1.rar
https://nitro.download/view/14C7045636D3791/BBQ_People.part2.rar

Language:Hebrew
Subtitles:English, French, Hebrew

The post Yossi Madmoni & David Ofek – Ha-Mangalistim AKA The Barbecue People [+Extras] (2003) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Isolation and loneliness are the dominant feelings in Youssef’s life after getting divorced from his wife who took the only son they have to live with her. He counts the days till he sees his son once a week. He plays with himself gammon, brews himself some tea and makes breakfast. He deals with everyday adversities with silence and stoicism. He secretly steals his electricity from a neighbor. He reacts to getting a parking ticket with a shrug of his shoulders. He endures his employer’s degradations and double-dealings. When female customers talk of their annoyances regarding their fiancées or other men, he simply doesn’t listen. He’s also come to terms with being the only one around without a mobile phone. Sometimes he takes long drives with his taxi in the streets of Amman or meet up with his friend and talk about his troubles. Suddenly, he finds himself in a serious situation when the doctor tells him about the necessity of having emergency surgery. So he is in the dilemma of the choice; either he has an operation, or buy his son the dog before the stepfather with whom the child lives does… lots of details… single shot scenes… a tone takes you through this isolated world… his taxi running in the streets of Amman compelled to live with his loneliness, dominated by oppression endured by all of us at the times of economic and social grinding crises.

1.39GB | 1h 33mn | 1024×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/D6A909A817074ED/Yahya_Alabdallah_-_(2011)_The_Last_Friday.mkv

Language(s):Arabic
Subtitles:English

The post Yahya Alabdallah – Al Juma Al Akheira AKA The Last Friday (2011) first appeared on Cinema of the World.