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Set against the stunning landscape of rural Iran, Shirak is a symbolic rural drama centered on a young boy who lives in a small agricultural village that is being terrorized by wild boars. When his father is mauled to death by the boars during an attack on one of the village fields, Shirak suddenly finds himself the head of the household. Determined to hunt down the dangerous animals and kill them, he picks dates in order to be able to purchase a watchdog from one of the local villagers. Together, Shirak and his dog confront the beasts when they attack the village. While filming Shirak in 1988, his eleventh film, Mehrjui observed, ‘I can remark that this film is different from my other works. Maybe it’s because I’ve used epic for the first time to describe the story. The major reason for my attraction to story was its difference. Another attractive point of the story was the growth of the youth and the way you can show the process of growth in a teenager by putting thoughts and actions together into one. It’s the never-ending process of a human being in search of himself and his personality, and that’s the reason he has to go through a particular route.’ Awards/Festivals: Jury Special Award to Mehdi Asadi, the child actor of Shirak in the 6th Fajr Intermational Film Festival 1988, Golden Apricot International Film Festival (Retrospective).

Shirak.1988.WEB.AAC.x264-KG.mkv

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Runtime: 	1 h 54 min
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https://nitro.download/view/4730C2B57374E65/Shirak.1988.WEB.AAC.x264-KG.mkv

Language(s):Persian
Subtitles:English – hc

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While looking for the cast for another unfinished project, a director discovers his ideal actor, a boy at a baker’s shop. By the time he goes to hire the young boy for his film, the shopkeeper has fired him. What ensues is a search for the homeless child and, along the way, the discovery of his solitude, his survival techniques, and the mental and physical state of surrounding adults and children. When the director finally finds his actor, the young adolescent seems to need serious medical care.The film gives the public a view of the Iranian medical system; once again the inadequacies of the social system and its contradictions are highlighted. Jalili also elaborates on generosity, once a sacred notion, individual responsibility and human limitations. Seen as criticism of the current medical system, the film was withheld for three years and only released in 1998.A True Story has found its moving actor and a life story worth discovering, but the film unintentionally dragged Jalili towards the realm of melodrama. Of this film, Godard said ‘A True Story may turn out to be a film that is not made very well, but it will always be ahead of the art.’

DVD label: Bonyad-e Cinemaie-ye Farabi(Farabi Cinema Foundation)
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DVD Audio: Codec (AC3), Channels (2.0)
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Menus: Untouched
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Extras contain: None
DVD runtime(s) (main feature and extras): 02:05:21

https://nitro.download/view/DECC6048B707F8D/Yek.Dastan-e.Vaghe’i.AKA.A.True.Story.1996.PAL.DVD5-ARN.rar

Language:Persian
Subtitles:Japanese [Hardcoded]

The post Abolfazl Jalili – Yek Dastan-e Vaghe’i AKA A True Story (1996) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Abolfazl Jalili’s docudrama La Gale (Scabies) is about the painful lives of young offenders who are serving time in the reformatories of post-revolution Iran. Young Hamed, arrested for handing out political tracts banned by the Islamic Republic, finds himself in a place of great suffering, in which illiterate and penniless orphans wash floors and sell their own blood. When a disease breaks out in the prison, his life within this harsh environment becomes progressively worse, a near-daily fight for survival. The film is a searing indictment against a government that failed to deliver the on the promises with which it came to power: to deliver social justice to the oppressed and downtrodden. Initially released in the mid 1980s, at a time when Iran was at war with neighbouring Iraq, the film was an unwelcome edition to the Fajr Film Festival, as its theme of prison life was deemed critical of the Islamic Republic. In a re-edited version, the film was released in 1989 to critical acclaim.

1.32GB | 1h 25m | 757×568 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/CADF5D603B41ED3/Scabies.1987.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.mkv

Language(s):Persian
Subtitles:English hardsubbed

The post Abolfazl Jalili – Gaal AKA Scabies (1989) first appeared on Cinema of the World.