Song Sparrow | PREMIERE

Date
Hour
Place
01/08
14:00
THE RUBY HALL


Song Sparrow
reż|dir Farzaneh Omidvarnia | DK | 2019 | 12 min

DESCRIPTION

Based on a real event, in Austria 2015, and in Ireland 2019. A Group of refugees tries to reach themselves to a safe country in search for a better life. They pay a smuggler to convey them across the boarders in a fridge truck. However, the freezing temperature of the truck turns their hopes for a better future into a fierce struggle for survival.


DIRECTOR
Farzaneh Omidvarnia was born in Iran, Graduated from University of Tehran, faculty of Fine Arts. She received a PhD in Design in 2015 from Technical University of Denmark. Following her graduation, she began to focus on creation of fabric sculptures and writing short stories. Her artworks soon appeared in several art exhibition in Europe and Iran, and she published her first collection of short stories in 2016. In 2017, she directed and produced her first animated film “To Be” (6 minutes, drama). The movie was acclaimed internationally and won prizes in different festivals. Her second film “Song Sparrow” has been completed in June 2019. She is now based in Copenhagen, Denmark.

FILMOGRAPHY
2017 To be

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