Kurdish film banned in Iran
The film "Half-Moon" by award winning Kurdish director Bahman Ghobadi has been banned in Iran, just as it was to premier at a Toronto film festival. As described by Agence France:
The film ("Niwemang" in Farsi) follows an iconic, but aging Kurdish musician Mamo (Ismail Ghaffari) in poor health who leads his sons and a woman with a "celestial voice" from Iran to Iraq for a concert to celebrate the fall of Saddam Hussein and the end of his censorship of Kurdish music.
The film is based on true events, but is "not political", Ghobadi insists.
However, it apparently flouts Iranian law, which forbids Kurds and women in mixed company from singing in public since Iran's Islamic revolution in 1979.
The film ("Niwemang" in Farsi) follows an iconic, but aging Kurdish musician Mamo (Ismail Ghaffari) in poor health who leads his sons and a woman with a "celestial voice" from Iran to Iraq for a concert to celebrate the fall of Saddam Hussein and the end of his censorship of Kurdish music.
The film is based on true events, but is "not political", Ghobadi insists.
However, it apparently flouts Iranian law, which forbids Kurds and women in mixed company from singing in public since Iran's Islamic revolution in 1979.
posted by Stephen Denney | 11:54 PM
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