FREE ON CINEGEEK.DE The Song Of Sparrows 

The first and last images of this spiritual fable show the ostrich - in the course of the plot the ostrich, majestic and mysterious, becomes the symbol of this world. Enter Karim (Reza Naji), an impoverished farmer with three children who lives somewhere in rural Iran. He is desperately trying to recover his soul after spending years in hell, in the material world. The Song Of Sparrows may seem like a naturalistic drama, but in reality it is an Islamic sermon, subdivided into strict moral lessons. Karim is dogged by bad luck. He loses his job at the ostrich farm after one of the birds escapes into the wild. To recapture the bird, he even dons an ostrich costume and performs a mating dance. However: all in vain. As if that were not enough, shortly afterwards his daughter Haniyeh (Shabnam Akhlaghi) loses her hearing aid in the village well. It lands in the mud, defective. Karim gets on his moped, rides to Tehran to have the hearing aid repaired - and loses his mental footing along the way.... Life in the city is atrocious; Tehran looks like hell on earth. A single junkyard, adjacent to a chaotic construction site. Karim collects the junk, carting it home to his garden. And the trash in his yard grows. But after an accident with his new "possessions," Karim is to regain his faith. Quite blunt and wonderfully sentimental! The Song Of Sparrow is about a righteous man, his faith, his family, his community. In his happiest moment, he sings, surrounded by children: The world is a lie, the world is a dream.