HALF MOON

Director: Bahman Ghobadi

Half Moon is the story of Mamo’s journey. Mamo, a renowned and admired old Kurdish singer is heading to Iraqi Kurdistan along with ten of his sons in order to perform a concert after years of silence. They are invited to travel to Iraqi Kurdistan so that they can perform a music concert for the very first time after the fall of Saddam Hussein’s government.

Mamo’s music is composed through the essence of a woman’s voice. Mamo intends to take the woman singer along with his music group on the trip. They wait seven months to obtain an authorization for the woman’s presence and cooperation in their music group. However given that women’s singing in Iran is forbidden, they are obliged to make the trip illegally ...