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Half Moon
Director: Bahman Ghobadi
Duration: 1 hour 47 minutes
Starring: Ismail Ghaffari, Allah-Morad Rashtian and Farzin Sabooni
Story:
Kako, a Kurdish musician, who despite his failing health, is determined to give one final concert in Iraqi Kurdistan to celebrate Saddam Hussein’s fall and the end of the brutal Iraqi dictator’s repression of Kurdish music. After months of trying to get a permit and rounding up his 10 sons, Kako immediately gets hold of a school bus and sets about rounding up his father, Mamo, and many brothers. They make their way across the border between Iranian and Iraqi Kurdistan and witness both sublime and soul-scarring sights.
