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06:30 PM » Bahman Ghobadi's "Half Moon" at Pacific Film Archive

SATURDAY OCTOBER 20 at 6:30

Half Moon

East Bay Premiere!

Bahram Ghobadi (Iran/Iraq/Austria/France, 2006, 107 mins)

The Kurdish people know no national borders, so it is with full hearts-also with laptop, cell phone, and rooster-that a dozen Kurdish musicians, all sons of widely revered elder Mamo, attempt the trip from Iranian to Iraqi Kurdistan to perform, now that Saddam is gone. Here, everything lyrical is also practical-a de Chirico landscape reveals itself to be a simple graveyard-everything transcendent rooted on earth: the heart-stopping "celestial voice" of scores of women singing as one reveals the existence of some 1300 female singers exiled by the 1979 revolution. There is no separation between the artistic and the political, the magical and the musical on this marvelous, fraught journey.

The Pacific Film Archive Theater is located at 2575 Bancroft Way (between Telegraph and Bowditch) in Berkeley, CA. Advance tickets are available by calling (510) 642-5249 or visiting http://bampfa.berkeley.edu/tickets

For more information on this and other programs, visit http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/filmseries

From: Jason Alley <jalley@berkeley.edu>