Half Moon

• Niwemang
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• Country: Iran
• Year: 2006
• Running time: 107 Minutes
• Other Countries: Iraq/Austria/France

Kurdish director Bahman Ghobadi’s (A Time for Drunken Horses) beautiful tale concerns Mamo (Ismail Ghaffari), an old musician in failing health, who must lead a dozen of his sons to Iraq for a concert—“a cry of freedom’— to celebrate the fall of Saddam and the end of his repression of Kurdish music. Their plan is to drive across the border between Iranian and Iraqi Kurdistan. On the long journey the men will encounter sublime visions alongside horrendous brutality. But first they must pick up Hesho (Hedye Tehrani), Mamo's exiled singer and muse, whose “celestial voice” takes on a divine, transformative power.