‘When the Moon was Full’ screened in India

Bengaluru International Film Festival has hosted Narge Abyar’s ‘When the Moon was Full’.

The Fajr Festival award-winning film was screened at the 2020 edition of the Indian event.

The movie narrates a true love story of Abdul-Hamid Rigi, a member of the Jundallah terrorist group.

Hamid Rigi marries Faezeh Mansouri, a woman from Tehran. Faezeh is forced to leave her homeland along with her brother, Shahab, to live in Pakistan where they find themselves involved in the Jundallah rebel activities.

The Rigi brothers were arrested by Iranian security forces and were executed in 2010.

Elnaz Shakerdoust, Houtan Shakiba, Fereshteh Sadr-Orafaee and Shabnam Moqaddami are among the cast of the film.

The 12th Bengaluru International Film Festival kicked off on February 26 and is set to run until March 4, 2020.

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