Synopsis
The Song of Sparrows (2008) — watch online on iFILM: an Iranian drama by Majid Majidi, the director behind Children of Heaven, with Reza Naji in the lead — he took home the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the Berlin International Film Festival that year.
Karim tends ostriches on a farm outside Tehran. When the prize bird escapes and he gets the blame, he loses his job and rides his motorbike into the city to sort out his daughter's broken hearing aid. A case of mistaken identity pulls him into working as a motorcycle taxi. Tehran is loud, fast, and full of money moving in directions he doesn't quite understand. He starts to adapt. His family back home notices the change.
Majidi films ordinary people in moments of genuine moral weight, and this one is no different. The film is not about Iran as spectacle — it's about what steady contact with easy money does to someone who has always lived by a clear code. Watch The Song of Sparrows (2008) online on iFILM.
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