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Song Sparrow

Farzaneh Omidvarnia

12 min | 2019 | Denmark/Iran | Boston Premiere

Immigration…is it worse to stay or go? People of different colors, races and cultures, old and young, embark on journeys, eager to find some place they can call home, or just some place they can live. Many brave perils more formidable than the ones they ran from. Based on a real event that happened in Austria in August 2015.

Awards: Best Animation - Lebu Int’l FF (Santiago Chile), Tricky Women/ Tricky Realities (Vienna
Austria), Festival Int’l del Cortometraggio (Lovere Italy), Giffoni FF (Giffoni Valle Piana Italy). 

Official Selections: Galway Film Fleadth (Galway Ireland), Yerevan Golden Apricot Int’l FF (Yerevan
Armenia), Flickers' Rhode Island Int’l FF (RI US), HollyShorts FF (CA US), Vancouver Int’l FF (Vancouver Canada), Segreteria Sedicicorto Int’l FF (Forlì Italy), Canberra Short FF (Canberra
Australia), Asiana Int’l Short FF (Seoul Korea), Stockholm Int’l FF (Stockholm Sweden), London Int’l Animation F (London UK), PÖFF Shorts, Black Nights FFF (Tallin Estonia), RSF Martha's Vineyard African American FF (MA US), among many others.