Rúnarsson’s Film Sparrows Wins Chicago!

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After main awards in San Sebastian and Warsaw, the feature fiction film Sparrows, directed by Rúnar Rúnarsson, won at the 51^st edition of Chicago International Film Festival, the oldest film festival in North America. Sparrows won a Silver Hugo in the New Directors Competition.

The Icelandic-Danish-Croatian co-production Sparrows speaks about 16-year-old Ari who lives with his mother in Reykjavik and is suddenly forced to move to his father Gunnar in faraway Westfjords. There he needs to cope with father-son relationships, as well as relationships with his childhood friends, which changed greatly. The film is produced by Nimbus Film and Nimbus Film Iceland, in co-production with Icelandic Pegasus Pictures and Croatian MP Produkcija.

The Zagreb premiere in 13^th ZFF’s competition will be attended by director Rúnar Rúnarsson (whose debut film Volcano we saw at ZFF in 2012), actor Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson (whom we saw last year in Of Horses and Men, and recently in adventure drama Everest), Icelandic and Danish co-producers, and the Croatian co-producer Igor A. Nola.

24. 10. 2015.