Moon review – gripping thriller follows an ex-cage fighter standing up to injustice

Moon review – gripping thriller follows an ex-cage fighter standing up to injustice

An Austrian trainer goes to Dubai to work with three teenage sisters, and realises they are trapped. But there is no hero-saviour narrative in Kurdwin Ayub’s filmThis claustrophobic drama-thriller sticks two fingers up at white saviour narratives with its story about a mixed martial arts fighter hired by a super-rich Jordanian to train his teenage sisters. It’s directed by Iraq-born Austrian film-maker Kurdwin Ayub, her script inspired perhaps b…