In Iran and Iraq’s postwar years, when Iraq bombs its Kurdistan, an old Iranian Kurd singer, accompanied by his musician sons, start searching for his ex-wife Hanareh. Hanareh, a women singer, has gone to Kurdistan in Iraq. The film is the story of the band’s journey, joined with their music. It is the story of a nation that has always been wandering. Being so used to war, they take it as a game and with their music they celebrate life.

Marooned.in.Iraq.x264.DVDRip (2002).mkv

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Container:	Matroska
Runtime:	1h 39mn
Size:	1.92 GiB
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Codec:	x264
Resolution:	720x480 ~> 853x480
Aspect ratio:	16:9
Frame rate:	23.976 fps
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Arabic 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 Kbps

https://nitro.download/view/A102488866AF398/Marooned.in.Iraq.x264.DVDRip_(2002).mkv

Language(s):Persian, Kurdish
Subtitles:English

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Itinerant Kurdish teachers, carrying blackboards on their backs, look for students in the hills and villages of Iran, near the Iraqi border during the Iran-Iraq war. Said falls in with a group of old men looking for their bombed-out village; he offers to guide them, and takes as his wife Halaleh, the clan’s lone woman, a widow with a young son. Reeboir attaches himself to a dozen pre-teen boys weighed down by contraband they carry across the border; they’re mules, always on the move. Said and Reeboir try to teach as their potential students keep walking. Danger is close; armed soldiers patrol the skies, the roads, and the border. Is there a role for a teacher? Is there hope?

Blackboards (Samira Makhmalbaf, 2000).mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 25 min
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Extra: How Samira made The Blackboard – A Video Diary by Maysam Makhmalbaf. In English and Persian/Kurdish, with hardcoded English subs for the non-English parts.

https://nitro.download/view/1C24B489BFD4F95/Blackboards_(Samira_Makhmalbaf,_2000).mkv
https://nitro.download/view/091129CC17E0005/How_Samira_made_The_Blackboard___A_Video_Diary_by_Maysam_Makhmalbaf.mkv

Language(s):Persian & Kurdish
Subtitles:English

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Young Iranian Kurds (brothers and sisters) try to save the youngest of them, who is seriously ill.

A.Time.for.Drunken.Horses.2000.1080p.CRIT.WEB-DL.AAC.2.0.H.264-KUCHU.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 18 min
Size: 	3.06 GiB
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Resolution: 	1920x1080 
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
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#1:  	Kurdish 2.0ch AAC LC @ 253 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/B20F780ABA9EBC4/A.Time.for.Drunken.Horses.2000.1080p.CRIT.WEB-DL.AAC.2.0.H.264-KUCHU.mkv

https://fikper.com/YPW7sbMGtn/A.Time.for.Drunken.Horses.2000.1080p.CRIT.WEB-DL.AAC.2.0.H.264-KUCHU.mkv

Language(s):Kurdish
Subtitles:English Hardcoded

The post Bahman Ghobadi – Zamani barayé masti asbha AKA A Time for Drunken Horses (2000) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A group of men from the city of Tehran traverse the rural Iranian countryside on a jeep, guided by a set of descriptive, yet unavoidably imprecise directions, seemingly lost. The driver (Behzad Dourani), respectfully called “Engineer” by the villagers, eventually encounters his appointed contact along the side of the road: a gentle, courteous boy named Farzad (Farzed Sohrabi), whom the Engineer proceeds to instruct with disseminating false information about their search for treasure in order to conceal the true and undisclosed nature of their visit to the Kurdish province. On an introductory tour through town, the Engineer shows interest in the declining health of Farzad’s grandmother, Malek, an invalid centenarian whose family has been keeping a vigil at the house as she approaches death. One day, unable to receive a clear signal from his cell phone in the remote village, the Engineer begins to drive to higher ground, and reaches a hilltop cemetery to receive his telephone call. Fragments of his conversation with his producer reveal that his assignment is associated with providing a chronicle of events associated with Malek’s eventual death. With little to do in the isolated province, the Engineer spends idle time by frequenting a quaint tea bar where the proprietress eagerly voices her complaints to any receptive ear, conversing with a lone ditchdigger named Youssef who literally throws him a bone, and listening attentively as a schoolteacher describes the sacred ceremony of scarring that is performed after a death by the women of the village as a sign of respect and community. But as the Engineer waits for a specific process of life to unfold for his documentary task, he also becomes a reverent observer for all of life’s undocumented passages in the small rural village.

Abbas Kiarostami presents an understated, honest, and introspective glimpse into the quiet dignity and celebration of everyday life in The Wind Will Carry Us. Kiarostami’s repeated use of unseen characters and off-camera action reinforces the film’s essential theme – the inherent beauty of the mundane: the frail Malek dictates the crew’s indefinite plans and extended stay in the village; the demure farmgirl, Zeynab, attracts the Engineer’s attention, who, in turn, flirts with the young woman by reciting a sensual modern Persian poem by Forough Farrokhzad; the collapse of Youssef’s ditch rallies the villagers to his rescue. Inevitably, as the Engineer becomes involved in the daily ritual of rural life, he transforms from an intrusive bystander to a concerned observer. The final scene shows the Engineer throwing his found artifact – the human bone – into a narrow, flowing river. It is a serene and poignant reminder of the transient beauty and eternal wonder of the human experience.

2.69GB | 1h 58m | 1024×552 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/06EF4F23B69310A/The.Wind.Will.Carry.Us.1999.BDRIP.4K.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/21639A92E47036D/The.Wind.Will.Carry.Us.1999.BDRIP.4K.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.srt

Language(s):Persian
Subtitles:English

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