Half Moon (2006)

Original title

نیوه مانگ

Directed by

Bahman Ghobadi

Genre

drama film, comedy film

Country

Iraq, Iran, France, Austria

Runtime

1h 54m

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 29 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An aging Kurdish musician named Mamo travels with his ten sons from Iranian Kurdistan to Iraqi Kurdistan to give one last concert. The journey is difficult and the border is a challenge.

bittersweetmelancholiclyricalroad-trippoignantwistfulquietly determinedatmospheric

What happens

Half Moon (Sorani Kurdish: نیوەمانگ, romanized: Nîwemaň) is a 2006 internationally co-produced Kurdish comedy-drama film directed by Bahman Ghobadi, who co-wrote the screenplay with Behnam Behzadi, partly inspired by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Requiem. The film stars Ismail Ghaffari as Mamo, an old legendary musician, who sets to trespass the borders of Iranian Kurdistan to give one final concert in Iraqi Kurdistan with his 10 sons. Half Moon is a part of the New Crowned Hope film series, a celebration of the 250th birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The film is an international co-production of Iran, Austria, France and Iraq. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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