The Little Bird Boy

Overview

With his father in jail, probably for smuggling alcohol across the barbed-wire border, Behruz and his family are destitute. His love of birds and talent for imitating their songs land him the unhappy job of helping to capture them for a local bird merchant. He meets a girl his own age whose mother comes to Iran to sell clothes, but they leave before he has a chance to say goodbye. Qanbari sticks to images and the children’s plaintive faces, old before their time, to tell his story almost without words. Their delicate emotions are echoed in a local bridegroom’s illegal crossing into Azerbaijan for his own wedding.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

August 23, 2002

Original language

Persian

Spoken languages

Arabic, Persian

Countries

Iran

Cast

Samira Alaie,Mehdi Shahabi,Nasrin Nakisa,Reza Naji,Amir Salamatzadeh,Mahmoud Nazaralian,Javad Derakhshan Hassankhani,Behnaz Sharghipour

Director

Rahbar Ghanbari

Writer

Rahbar Ghanbari

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt0344186