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Sparrows(Movie, 2015)

Original title: "Þrestir" (Icelandic/IS)
1h 39min | Genre: Drama
SparrowsRating: 3.3/5 (with 1717 votes)
Sparrows (Icelandic: Þrestir) is a 2015 internationally co-produced film directed by the 2006 short film oscar nominee Rúnar Rúnarsson, starring Atli Óskar Fjalarsson, Rakel Björk Björnsdóttir and Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson. It tells the story of a 16-year-old boy who moves from his mother in Reykjavík to his father in the Icelandic countryside. It was screened in the Contemporary World Cinema section of the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. It was selected as the Icelandic entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 89th Academy Awards but it was not nominated. Sparrows became a festival darling and on top of its great festival run the film has been honored with 20 international film awards since it was awarded the Golden Shell at the 63rd San Sebastián International Film Festival. ()
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About Sparrows

The story follows a 16-year-old Icelandic boy, Ari, who lives with his mother in Reykjavík. She has to leave the country for a new job, sending him back to the small town of his youth. There he finds his old friend, suddenly a young woman with a tricky romantic relationship; and his father has become a victim of the financial crisis.

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SPARROWS (2015) - Official Trailer(Trailer, 1:58)

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Additional Information

Production countries: Denmark, Croatia, Iceland
Plays in: Iceland
Original language: Icelandic (IS)
Spoken languages: Icelandic (IS)
Translated into 16 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Catalan (CA), Danish (DA), German (DE), Greek (EL), English (EN), Spanish (ES), French (FR), Hebrew (HE), Hungarian (HU), Italian (IT), Dutch (NL), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 05/13/2015
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"Pardais"
"Spatzen"
"Gorriones"
"Σπουργίτια"
"Madárkák"
"Passeri"
"Despegando a la vida"
"Småfugler"
"Wróble"

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Other movies with this title: Sparrows (US, 1926), Sparrows (DE, 2009)

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