The Little Bird Boy

The Little Bird Boy — Plot

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.

• Release date
• August 23, 2002
• Runtime
• 77 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Rahbar Ghanbari

The Little Bird Boy — Cast

S

Samira Alaie

J

Javad Derakhshan Hassankhani Reza Naji

N

Nasrin Nakisa Mahmoud Nazaralian

A

Amir Salamatzadeh

M

Mehdi Shahabi

B

Behnaz Sharghipour