The martial arts career by Sarah – played by theater star Florentina Holzinger ends with a catastrophic defeat. Like a beetle on the back, she winds at the beginning of the Austrian thriller moon In the stranger of her opponent. Full of pain, it has to knock on the task. After that, the Viennese tries more than right than a personal trainer.
The change seems Job offer from Jordan to offer. Sarah is supposed to train the daughters of a wealthy family well. What happens then is currently in the cinema after the film was seen at the Locarno Film Festival last year and was awarded the special prize of the jury.
The Austrian thriller moon is primarily worn by two women
The Austrian Florentina Holzinger, who celebrates her film drama debut with the moon, is considered one the Choreographers and performance artists in the stage area. Finally, she caused great outrage in Stuttgart: lesbian love scenes, live piercings and caravations were many opera horses: apparently too much inside.
According to Egbert Tholl from the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Holzinger was mainly about “The comprehensive emancipation of the female body as a means of expression”. A concept that she unites with moon director Kurdwin Ayub. In her films, she also tells primarily of female emancipation. Already in her debut film sun we see a young Kurdin who tries to go her own way. Moon connects seamlessly.
Director Kurdwin Ayub is a true master of omission
Arrived in Jordan, Sarah must first sign a confidentiality agreement. Nothing may penetrate from what you get in the house of the three sisters to be trained Nour (Andria Tayeh), Fatima (Celina Sarhan) and Shaima (Nagham Abu Baker). She quickly realizes that the three girls Isolated life without internet Deries golden cage in one of her family’s men. At the same time, she longs for herself in the cage of the MMA ring.
Ayub kept feeding us with information to withhold others the next moment. And soon we don’t know as little as Sarah, what truth and what is lie, who you can trust and who plays badly.
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Moon is exciting like a thriller and at the same time asks important questions about prejudices and women’s rights
Ayub manages to draw a complex picture of the Middle East, where you quickly wonder what reality and what is just projection. It is clear that the sisters are suppressed. But Let us write this to the country’s culture Or the mafia family structure?
The girls’ excursions don’t really look like the headscarf compulsion. But when the drunk Sarah makes advances to the hotel barkeeper, men are quickly on the spot to take them away. Sexual-self-conscious and drunk women are probably not welcome here. Excessive celebrations for Techno-Beats seems possible-but only after a long gauntlet run under the eyes of the bouncers.
Here is the trailer for the current film moon:
Moon – Trailer (German UT) HD
If the patriarchal violence is more and more revealed in all its hardness in the course of the film, this appears equally as a cultural clash and a call to universalism. Because the world of Sarah in Vienna is clearly different from that of the girls in Jordan. However, women experience oppression and violence worldwide – that makes Ayub’s film unmistakably clear.
Moon has been seen in German cinemas since March 27, 2025.