Birds Like Us

Birds Like Us
Film poster
BosnianPtice kao mi
TurkishKuşlar Bizim Gibi
Directed byFaruk Šabanović
Amela Ćuhara
Written byOlivia Hetreed
Faruk Šabanović
Based on
The Conference of the Birds
by Attar of Nishapur
Produced byAdnan Ćuhara
CinematographyFaruk Šabanović
Music byTimothy Bruzon
Peter Gabriel
Production
companies
Prime Time
Turkish Radio & Television
Autonomous
Fork Films
Distributed byLionsgate
Grindstone Entertainment Group (United States)
Kaleidoscope Film Distribution (United Kingdom)
Release dates
  • May 5, 2017 (2017-05-05) (Stuttgart)
  • August 16, 2017 (2017-08-16) (Sarajevo)
  • November 30, 2017 (2017-11-30) (Doha)
  • October 16, 2018 (2018-10-16) (Turkey)
  • January 25, 2022 (2022-01-25) (United States)
Running time
84 minutes
CountriesBosnia and Herzegovina
Turkey
United Kingdom
United States
Qatar
LanguageEnglish
Budget€ 7.5 million
Box office€ 2 million

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". It features the Peter Gabriel song "Everybird", which was composed for the film and also appears on the album "Rated PG".

Plot

Cast

Critical reception

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." 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."

References

  1. ↑ "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.
  2. ↑ Ide, Wendy (2017-08-16). "'Birds Like Us': Sarajevo Review". Screen Daily. Retrieved 2019-06-03.
  3. ↑ ""Everybird"". Peter Gabriel Ltd. 2019. Archived from the original on 26 September 2020.
  4. ↑ Ide, Wendy. "'Birds Like Us': Sarajevo Review". Screen Daily. Media Business Insight Limited. Retrieved 2023-01-05.
  5. ↑ "Birds Like Us". Dove.org. Giving Company. Retrieved 2023-01-05.