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Bye Bye Blue Bird
This Faroese road movie is a colourful provocation and confrontation with the past. The two friends, Rannvá and Barba, return to their home islands after years abroad - and the meeting with the island home of their childhood does not pass quietly. The girls arouse both curiosity and outrage with their bizarre city appearance and emancipated behaviour.
But the girls are on a more important mission. Both girls live with old secrets, especially concerning their families, and now they want everything out in the open. They get at lift with one of the locals, Rúni, who - as it turns out - also carries a dark secret. The trio goes on a journey not just through the beautiful landscape of the Faroes but into of the land of the past.
85 min. Director: Katrin Ottarsdóttir. Screenplay: Katrin Ottarsdóttir. Cinematography: Jřrgen Johansson. Produktion: Peter Bech Film, Danmark. 1999.
The film has won the following awards:
- The Audience Award, Nordic Film Festival, Rouen (France) 2000
- Youth Jury Award, Nordic Film Festival, Rouen (France) 2000
- VPRO Tiger Award, Interntaional Film Festival, Rotterdam (Netherlands) 2000
- NDR Förderpreis, Nordische Filmtage, Lübeck (Germany) 1999
- Honourable mention, International Film Festival, Mannheim-Heidelberg (Germany), 1999
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