Birds Like Us | |
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Bosnian | Ptice kao mi |
Turkish | Kuşlar Bizim Gibi |
Directed by | Faruk Šabanović Amela Ćuhara |
Written by | Olivia Hetreed Faruk Šabanović |
Based on | The Conference of the Birds by Attar of Nishapur |
Produced by | Adnan Ćuhara |
Cinematography | Faruk Šabanović |
Music by | Timothy Bruzon Peter Gabriel |
Production company | Prime Time |
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Running time | 84 minutes |
Countries | Bosnia and Herzegovina Turkey United Kingdom United States Qatar |
Language | English |
Budget | € 7.5 million[1] |
Box office | € 2 million |
Birds Like Us (Bosnian: Ptice kao mi; Turkish: Kuşlar Bizim Gibi) is a 2017 animated film directed by Faruk Šabanović and Amela Ćuhara. The film is an animated free adaptation of the Attar of Nishapur poem, "The Conference of the Birds".[2] It features the Peter Gabriel song "Everybird", which was composed for the film and also appears on the album "Rated PG".[3]
Writing for Screen Daily, critic Wendy Ide reported that the film "eschews the source material’s delicate layering of symbolic allusion in favour of a baffling assault of visual non-sequiturs," and that "thanks to the esoteric plotting and disorientating animation, clarity is missing in action."[4] A review on Dove.org described the film as not "look[ing] like your garden-variety animated film" and that "It’s occasionally funny [and] eventually hopeful."[5]