Moon
Austrian-Kurdish filmmaker Kurdwin Ayub (SIFF 2023’s Sonne) won the Special Jury Prize at the Locarno Film Festival for her tense, provocative sophomore feature, about an MMA fighter who heads to Jordan to teach a trio of wealthy sisters, only to learn they are confined to their home.
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Sarah (played by provocateur performance artist Florentina Holzinger) is an Austrian professional MMA fighter who has just lost a career-ending fight. She’s tough, with a face that shows her decades spent brawling, and she doesn’t hesitate to accept a job offer that her friends and family believe is too good to be true: A wealthy Jordanian man has hired Sarah to be a private trainer for his three sisters, who never leave the mansion without a bodyguard. But who is this family and why are they under constant surveillance?
Moon is Kurdish-Austrian filmmaker Kurdwin Ayub’s thrilling sophomore feature, following her award-winning debut film Sonne (SIFF 2023). Moon has already garnered several awards for its enthralling portrayal of a family in peril, shown through the hardened eyes of a woman trying to navigate a life she doesn’t want. Ayub doesn’t give easy answers in this tense film that asks, “How can you save others when you cannot save yourself?”
—Heather Marie Bartels
- Original Language Title: Mond
- Director: Kurdwin Ayub
- Principal Cast: Florentina Holzinger, Andria Tayeh, Celina Antwan, Nagham Abu Baker, Omar Almajali
- Premiere Status: US
- Country: Austria
- Year: 2024
- Running Time: 92 min.
- Producer: Ulrich Seidl
- Screenplay: Kurdwin Ayub
- Cinematographers: Klemens Hufnagl
- Editors: Roland Stöttinger
- Website: Official Film Website
- Awards: Locarno Film Festival 2024 (Special Jury Prize, Europa Cinemas Label Prize)
- Filmography: Sonne (2022)
- Language: English, German, Arabic
- Has Subtitles: Yes
- Format: DCP
- International Sales: Bendita Film Sales