One cop, one chaotic night, and a country having a collective breakdown under the full moon.
A police officer Hamza has to work that night even though his wife has gone into labour, because the police are short-staffed. To make everything worse, it seems that people showing up at the station have decided to prove the old belief about the mysterious powers of the full moon and its influence on human behaviour. In the course of that one night, representatives of all the absurdity and tragedy of life in Bosnia and Herzegovina parade through the station and somehow help Hamza get ready for a new life.
Acting
Alban Ukaj's exhausted everyman carries the entire film.
Direction
Single-location pressure cooker with mounting dread and dark humor.
Writing
Dialogue that balances Bosnian specificity with universal absurdity.
Director
Nermin Hamzagić
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film emerged from Bosnia's vibrant post-war cinema scene, using the full moon superstition as a wry commentary on how Balkan societies explain collective dysfunction.
Director Hamzagić intentionally kept runtime under 80 minutes because, as he put it, 'Bosnian audiences have suffered enough.' The brevity becomes thematic: life interrupts, babies don't wait.
BA
