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COMMON BIRDS

By Silvia Maglioni GRAEME THOMSON, Graeme THOMSON

Experimental - Completed 2019

No longer willing to pay for the debt, two Athenians, Tassos and Kostas, decide to leave their city. Guided by mysterious crow calls, they walk through the urban landscape until they reach a zone of passage from where they are spirited to an ancient forest: the realm of the birds.

Festivals
& Awards

Thessaloniki IFF 2019

Greek Films

Rotterdam IFF 2020

Perspectives

Berlin Critics Week 2020

official selection

- Year of production
- 2019
- Genres
- Experimental, Documentary, Art - Culture
- Countries
- FRANCE, GREECE
- Languages
- Other
- Duration
- 84 mn
- Director(s)
- Silvia Maglioni GRAEME THOMSON, Graeme THOMSON
- Synopsis
- No longer willing to pay for the debt, two Athenians, Tassos and Kostas, decide to leave their city. Guided by mysterious crow calls, they walk through the urban landscape until they reach a zone of passage from where they are spirited to an ancient forest: the realm of the birds.
  Here they meet the Hoopoe, half-bird half-woman, who becomes their translator. The birds live by sharing their resources amid the magical forces of the forest.
  While Kostas is enchanted by these forms of life, Tassos wants to persuade the birds to take power by building a wall around the sky. The encounter between humans, birds and forest will be illuminating for all.
  Some 2,500 years after it was written, an experimental adaptation of Aristophanes’ The Birds. Between a contemporary Athens marked by crisis and the ancestral forest of La Gomera, Ancient Greek and Silbo Gomero (an endangered whistled language that forms part of a long tradition of resistance), comes a tale of flight, loss and reenchantment in a space of refuge where new alliances can emerge between different species, temporalities and languages.

COMMON BIRDS

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