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My Frightening Rushed Palestinian Roadblock Wedding

Like the 1999 German hit “Run Lola Run,” the new movie by Palestinian director Hany Abu-Assad opens with an ultimatum and a plucky heroine alone in her room, wondering which way to turn. Both films feature menacing dogs, lost plastic bags, and an aimless, poorly shaved lover.
But that’s where the similarities end, because contemporary Berlin is a happier place than Jerusalem in 2003. For one thing, Tom Tykwer’s redhead Lola didn’t have to deal with roadblocks, trigger-happy soldiers, and bomb squads. For another, Lola was fiercely self-determined, while Rana (Clara Khoury) has to contend not only with political oppression but the dominating role men are assigned in her culture.

And by men, I mean Rana’s father, who presents her with the choice to either come to live with him in Egypt or marry one of a list of acceptable suitors he picked for her. She has until 4pm to decide–but Rana has other plans. She races across the city to find her lover Khalil (Kahlifa Natour) and marry him before her father’s ultimatum runs out.

Like that man lost in yet another embattled city, Leopold Bloom, Rana’s odyssey takes her past an encyclopedic view of her world: funeral processions, omnipresent security cameras, demolitions, uzis, and the humiliations of dealing with a hostile bureaucracy.

Codec XVID
Language Arabic
Type Video
Resolution 624x368
Frame Rate 29.97
Audio codec a52
Channels 2
Sample Rate 48000 Hz
Bitrate 192 kb/s
Duration: 1:26:17

https://nitro.download/view/2597A252DBFBE39/RANAS_WEDDING.avi

Language(s):Arabic
Subtitles:Hard English

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Elissa’s life takes a turn when she meets a mysterious man in her English class and she has to quickly decide between her family and him- and going from family-life to a life on the run is a wild choice to everyone but her.

269MB | 6m 36s | 1920×1080 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/DD23FC460ACF74F/Amsterdam.to.Anatolia.2019.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC-DENTiST.mkv

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

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In Majdal Shams, the largest Druze village in Golan Heights on the Israeli-Syrian border, the Druze bride Mona is engaged to get married with Tallel, a television comedian that works in the Revolution Studios in Damascus, Syria. They have never met each other because of the occupation of the area by Israel since 1967; when Mona moves to Syria, she will lose her undefined nationality and will never be allowed to return home. Mona’s father Hammed is a political activist pro-Syria that is on probation by the Israeli government. His older son Hatten married a Russian woman eight years ago and was banished from Majdal Shams by the religious leaders and his father. His brother Marwan is a wolf trader that lives in Italy. His sister Amal has two teenager daughters and has the intention to join the university, but her marriage with Amin is in crisis. When the family gathers for Mona’s wedding, an insane bureaucracy jeopardizes the ceremony.

1.96GB | 1h 32mn | 1006×566 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/39BDBD4D4DC3337/Ha-Kala.Ha-Surit.AKA.The.Syrian.Bride.2004.DVDRip.x264-Le0.mkv

Language(s):Arabic, English, Hebrew, Russian, French+commentary
Subtitles:English, Hebrew, German, French

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