| Birds Like Us | |
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 Film poster | |
| Bosnian | Ptice kao mi |
| Turkish | Kuşlar Bizim Gibi |
| Directed by | Faruk Šabanović Amela Ćuhara |
| Written by | Olivia Hetreed Faruk Šabanović |
| Based on | The Conference of the Birds by Attar of Nishapur |
| Produced by | Adnan Ćuhara |
| Cinematography | Faruk Šabanović |
| Music by | Timothy Bruzon Peter Gabriel |
| Production companies | Prime Time Turkish Radio & Television Autonomous Fork Films |
| Distributed by | Lionsgate Grindstone Entertainment Group (United States) Kaleidoscope Film Distribution (United Kingdom) |
| Release dates |
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| Running time | 84 minutes |
| Countries | Bosnia and Herzegovina Turkey United Kingdom United States Qatar |
| Language | English |
| Budget | € 7.5 million |
| Box office | € 2 million |
Birds Like Us (Bosnian: Ptice kao mi; Turkish: Kuşlar Bizim Gibi) is a 2017 animated fantasy adventure film directed by Faruk Šabanović and Amela Ćuhara. The film is an animated free adaptation of the Attar of Nishapur poem, "The Conference of the Birds". It features the Peter Gabriel song "Everybird", which was composed for the film and also appears on the album "Rated PG".
Cast
- Alicia Vikander: Huppu
- Jeremy Irons: Kondor / Mi
- Jim Broadbent: Horozovich
- Sheridan Smith: Gavra
- Kevin Bishop: Hassan
- Christopher Villiers: Craven
- Michele Austin: Jula
- Khalid Abdalla: Bat
- Ella Smith: Tifa
Critical reception
Writing for Screen Daily, critic Wendy Ide reported that the film "eschews the source material’s delicate layering of symbolic allusion in favour of a baffling assault of visual non-sequiturs," and that "thanks to the esoteric plotting and disorientating animation, clarity is missing in action." A review on Dove.org described the film as not "look like your garden-variety animated film" and that "It’s occasionally funny eventually hopeful."
References
- "CineLink Work in Progress Selection 2015" (PDF). www.sff.ba. Sarajevo Film Festival. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2018-12-09. Retrieved 2019-06-03.
- Ide, Wendy (2017-08-16). "'Birds Like Us': Sarajevo Review". Screen Daily. Retrieved 2019-06-03.
- ""Everybird"". Peter Gabriel Ltd. 2019. Archived from the original on 26 September 2020.
- Ide, Wendy. "'Birds Like Us': Sarajevo Review". Screen Daily. Media Business Insight Limited. Retrieved 2023-01-05.
- "Birds Like Us". Dove.org. Giving Company. Retrieved 2023-01-05.
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