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LITTLE BIRDS


Séries Mania 2020

International Competition

World premiere
Drama - Comedy | United Kingdom | 2020

Episodes 1 & 2
Series 6 x 50 min
In English, with French subtitles

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.

  • created & written by Sophia Al-Maria
  • adapted from the novel by Anaïs Nin
  • directed by Stacie Passon
  • Music Anne Nikitin
  • With Juno Temple, Yumna Marwan, Hugh Skinner, Raphael Acloque, Jean-Marc Barr, David Costabile, Amy Landecker, Rossy De Palma, Kamel Labroudi, Nina Sosanya, Matt Lauria
  • production Warp Films
  • International sales ITV Global Entertainment
  • Broadcast by Sky (UK)