Sparrows (2015)

Original title

Þrestir

Directed by

Rúnar Rúnarsson

Genre

drama film

Country

Croatia, Iceland, Denmark

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

15

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 40 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A 16-year-old boy leaves his mother in Reykjavik to live with his father in the remote Icelandic countryside. He struggles to adapt to a harsh rural life and a distant parent.

melancholicslow-burnintrospectivebleakvisually starkatmosphericemotionally restrainedlonely

What happens

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 had a long festival run and was honored with 20 international film awards including the Golden Shell at the 63rd San Sebastián International Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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