Niwemang

Bahman Ghobadi

IndieLisboa 2007 • New Crowned Hope

Iran, France, Fiction, 2006, 114′

Bittersweet comedy about the impossible bus journey of an old Kurdish musician who travels with his sons to Iraq to give the concert of his life.

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