Near the end of the last Carlist war, a wounded girl is pulled out of an orphanage by a woman who lives alone deep in the forest, and nothing about the arrangement turns out to be ordinary. All the Moons builds its fantasy quietly, letting the historical setting sit in the background while something stranger takes hold.
What is All the Moons about?
The girl, badly hurt and left with few options, is taken in by a mysterious woman whose isolated life in the forest hides more than simple solitude. As the two settle into an uneasy routine together, the film lets the relationship unfold slowly, tracking what it costs the girl to accept a kind of survival she never asked for and what the woman gives up by taking her in. Set against the last throes of a nineteenth-century conflict, the story keeps its historical backdrop deliberately spare, using the war more as atmosphere and pressure than as plot, while the fantasy element at its center grows heavier the longer the two remain together in the woods.
About the cast
Itziar Ituño anchors the film alongside Haizea Carneros, with Josean Bengoetxea, Lier Quesada, Zorion Eguileor, and Elena Uriz rounding out the cast. The performances favor restraint over spectacle, letting silence and small gestures carry scenes that could easily have leaned on more overt drama.
Context & significance
All the Moons comes from Spanish director Igor Legarreta and pairs Spanish and French production behind a story that sits closer to dark fantasy than to conventional historical drama. Released in 2020, it belongs to a strand of European genre filmmaking that uses folklore and the supernatural to process grief and survival rather than to deliver scares, closer in spirit to a slow-burning fable than to a horror picture. Its wartime setting gives the story weight without turning the film into a war drama in its own right.
Watching All the Moons on Ktime
All the Moons streams on K-Time with a free account login and is available with a Persian dub as well as Persian subtitles, making it accessible to viewers who prefer to watch entirely in Farsi. The platform's interface is built with Persian-speaking audiences in mind, and no separate purchase step stands between signing in and pressing play.