Tangier, 1955. New York heiress Lucy Savage is fresh off the transatlantic steamer and ready for love and marriage in exotic climes. But when her husband Hugo does not receive her in the way she expected, she spins off into an unfamiliar world and goes on a witty, moving and provocative journey towards freedom and independence.
OUR TAKE Playfully inspired by the erotic works of Anaïs Nin, Little Birds is a deliciously provocative and colorful story of emancipation. Beneath the caricatured veneer of the story, Sophia Al-Maria recounts the last throes of a fading societal order and the hopes of a generation that, scandal after scandal, is freeing itself from the shackles imposed on it.
On the Sunday 22nd of March screening, Iris Brey will moderate the talk with the artistic team.