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".[2] It features the Peter Gabriel song "Everybird", which was composed for the film and also appears on the album "Rated PG".[3]
| Birds Like Us | |
|---|---|
 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 company | Prime Time |
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[1] |
| Box office | € 2 million |
Cast edit
- 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 edit
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."[4] A review on Dove.org described the film as not "look[ing] like your garden-variety animated film" and that "It’s occasionally funny [and] eventually hopeful."[5]
References edit
- ^ "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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