SPARROWS

After living in Reykjavik with his mother for a few years, Ari has to go live with his father in a fishing village. While trying to reconnect with family and friends, he witnesses a disturbing incident and must decide whether to tell anyone. For his second feature, Icelandic filmmaker Rúnar Rúnarsson (Volcano) explores change, transition and adaptation and their role in human relationships: for a teen on the cusp of adulthood, a man relearning how to be a father, and a community in crisis. The sublime, timeless landscapes conceal deep economic and social misery in a declining region, being drained by the city like many isolated communities in Iceland. While the story is one of darkness and loss, it is also one of possibility and discovery. Whether they take advantage of it or not, father and son have a rare second chance to get to know each other. A delicate film, completely focused on its characters and actors, with a vision of adolescence as a time of fragility, movement and crucial moral decisions.