Moon Hotel Kabul

Moon Hotel Kabul
Theatrical release poster
Directed byAnca Damian
Screenplay by
  • Anca Damian
  • Lia Bugnar
Produced by
  • Anca Damian
  • Tom Dercourt
  • Sophie Erbs
  • Codin Maticiuc
  • Frantz Richard
Starring
  • Florin Piersic Jr.
  • Ofelia Popii
  • Adrian Titieni
  • Alexandru Nagy
  • Rodica Negrea
CinematographyDominique Colin
Edited byBasile Belkhiri
Music byRomain Trouillet
Production
companies
  • Aparte Film
  • Cinéma Defacto
Release dates
Running time
100 minutes
LanguageRomanian
Budget800,000
Box office$2,577

Moon Hotel Kabul is a 2018 Romanian-French drama film directed by Anca Damian and written by Damian and Lia Bugnar. It tells the story of Ivan (played by Florin Piersic Jr.), a charismatic but cynical journalist who starts to reconsider his life after Ioana (played by Ofelia Popii), a translator with whom he has had a one-night stand in a hotel in Kabul, commits suicide one day later. The film was shot in 2016, in Bucharest and Morocco, "as it was too risky to shoot in Kabul at that time".

The film premiered on October 18, 2018 at the Warsaw Film Festival where Damian received the Best Director award. It was theatrically released in Romanian on November 30, 2018. At the 2019 Gopo Awards, Alexandru Nagy was nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, and Popii and Rodica Negrea were nominated for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.