Sparrows
Drama
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.
VIBE
A quiet, contemplative journey through adolescence and disillusionment. It captures the specific ache of returning home and confronting the ghosts of the past, all set against a starkly beautiful, windswept landscape.
melancholicintrospectivewistfulsomberslow-burnarthousenaturalisticcharacter-drivenindie dramacoming-of-agefamilydisillusionmentidentity
small townadolescenceicelandcoming of ageteenage boy
