Drunken Birds (2021)

Original title

Les oiseaux ivres

Directed by

Ivan Grbovic

Genre

drama

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 44m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Mexican drug runner crosses into Canada searching for his lost girlfriend. He finds work on a farm in Quebec where he tries to start over.

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What happens

Drunken Birds (French: Les Oiseaux ivres) is a 2021 Canadian drama film directed by Ivan Grbovic who co-wrote with Sara Mishara. The film stars Jorge Antonio Guerrero as Willy, a Mexican drug runner in a crime cartel who travels to Canada in search of his girlfriend Marlena (Yoshira Escárrega) after she disappears, and takes a job as a migrant worker on a farm in the Montérégie region. The film's cast also includes Hélène Florent, Claude Legault, Marine Johnson, Maxime Dumontier, Amaryllis Tremblay, Karl Walcott, Gilberto Barraza, and Normand D'Amour. The film premiered at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival, in the Platform Prize program. The film was digitally and theatrically released in Canada is on October 15, 2021, by Les Films Opale. It was selected as the Canadian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 94th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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