Half moon [videorecording] / Strand Releasing and the Match Factory present a Mij Films production in co-production with Silkroad Production & New Crowned Hope Festival Vienna 2006 ; produced, written and directed by Bahman Ghobadi.

Widescreen.

[Culver City, CA] : Strand Releasing Home Video, c2008.

1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

"Mamo, an iconic Kurdish musician in the twilight of his life and in failing health, must lead a dozen of his sons to Iraq for a concert - 'a cry of freedom' - to celebrate the fall of Saddam Hussein and the end of his repression of Kurdish music. Their plan is to drive across the border between Iranian and Iraqi Kurdistan, but the road will be long and winding and the local wise man has predicted calamity. On their quest, the men will encounter the most sublime visions alongside the most horrendous brutality - primarily meted out by border guards. But first they must pick up Hesho, Mamo`s exiled singer and muse. The "celestial voice" she represents takes on a divine, transformative power, and Mamo is left in a state of grace no one could ever have anticipated."--Container.

Images / Video & Film

Kurdish; Persian

May 26, 2009

Director of photography, Nigel Bluck ; editor, Hayedeh Safiyari ; original music, Hossein Alizadeh.

Ismail Ghaffari, Allah Morad Rashtian, Farzin Saboni, Hedieh Tehrani, Golshifteh Farahani, Hasan Poorshirazi, Kambiz Arshi, Sadiq Behzadpoor, Ali Ashraf Rezai, Reza Haj Khosravi, Mohamad Nahid, Bahram Zarei.

DVD.

Unrated.

#2726-2 Strand Releasing Home Video