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Two birds (film)

Two Birds (Smáfuglar)
"TWO BIRDS, A FILM BY RÚNAR RÚNARSSON" appears below a photograph of two young, unclothed adolescents, a boy and a girl, shown from the shoulders up. They are gazing into each others eyes. The boy is facing towards the camera, so all but the right edge of his face is visible. His expression is solemn. The girl is on the left side of the picture, with her body at a right angle to the camera and her head turned to her left to face toward the boy. Therefore, we can see only her right ear, her right cheek, and little bits of her right shoulder and of her hair. The two of them have pale skin and dark blond hair. The background behind the boy's head and shoulders is dark gray. The name of the film is in large white letters, which run off the left and right edges of the picture. The rest of the caption is in smaller, dark gray letters, and below it are five lines of additional film credits in very small dark gray letters. All the lines of writing are on a beige background, which blends into their skin.
Theatrical release poster
Directed by Rúnar Rúnarsson
Produced by
Written by Rúnar Rúnarsson
Starring
Music by Kjartan Sveinsson
Cinematography Sophia Olsson
Edited by Jacob Schulsinger
Production
company
Release date
  • October 3, 2008 (2008-10-03)
Running time
 15 minutes
Country Iceland
Language Icelandic

Two Birds (Icelandic: Smáfuglar, lit. little birds) is a 2008 Icelandic short film, written and directed by the Oscar nominee Rúnar Rúnarsson. Smáfuglar took the festival circuit by a storm after the world premiere in the official selection in Cannes 2008 ,where the film was nominated for The PALM D´OR. In the two years after its release it received over 67 international awards at film festivals where it was exhibited, including two Best Actor awards to male lead Atli Óskar Fjalarsson.

2 Birds (Smáfuglar) takes place during one bright summer night and follows a group of young teenagers on a journey from innocence to adulthood. The main character is a timid boy who has a typical schoolboy crush on a girl his age, who happens to be a friend of his mate.

The website Short of the Week describes Two Birds as "...perhaps the purest and most earnest 15 minutes of film I have ever experienced."


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