These Birds Walk

Name: These Birds Walk
Genre: Drama, Documentary, News
Released: November 1, 2013
Duration: 71 min
Rating: 82

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Oscilloscope Pictures | Release Date: November 1, 2013 | Not Rated

Summary: In Karachi, Pakistan, a runaway boy's life hangs on one critical question: where is home? The streets, an orphanage, or with the family he fled in the first place? Simultaneously heart-wrenching and life-affirming, These Birds Walk documents the struggles of wayward street children and the samaritans looking out for them. [Oscilloscope Pictures]

Director: Bassam Tariq and Omar Mullick

Genre(s): Drama, Documentary, News

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 71 min

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Nicolas Rapold

Oct 31, 2013

The filmmakers record the flash of youth’s headlong energies, its bumps and bruises, and its melancholies and brilliant chaos. Read full review

Betsy Sharkey

Nov 27, 2013

Deeply moving and devoid of melodrama, These Birds Walk is as pragmatic as its subjects. Read full review

Kenji Fujishima

Oct 29, 2013

The filmmakers use a wide range of cinematic techniques to convey the tenuous environment in which their subjects find themselves. Read full review

Scott Tobias

Oct 29, 2013

Viewers can walk away with something more precious than factoids: an emotional, aesthetically striking experience that cuts more deeply than words. And if they crave more information, that’s what the Internet is for. Read full review

Film.com Daniel Walber

Nov 2, 2013

Might be the single most beautiful documentary of the year. Read full review

Peter Debruge

Oct 4, 2013

Instead of explaining the system through conventional narration, which would have been extremely helpful, the filmmakers immerse auds in the world they found, capturing its subjects’ behavior with startling candor. Read full review

Andrew Frisicano

Oct 29, 2013

Those reunions are not always happy ones—one relative claims that his nephew would be less trouble dead — but they offer a brief, striking glimpse into the situations that make such a organization necessary. Read full review

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Ethan_G

Mar 11, 2014

A masterpiece. There has, perhaps, never been a greater documentary made on the effects of poverty on children in the Third World. By eschewing statistics, and interviews, "These Birds Walk" simply points the camera (the cinematography is breathtaking) and watches. Emotions of disbelief,A masterpiece. There has, perhaps, never been a greater documentary made on the effects of poverty on children in the Third World. By eschewing statistics, and interviews, "These Birds Walk" simply points the camera (the cinematography is breathtaking) and watches. Emotions of disbelief, shock, and helplessness follow, as you watch a group of runaway children in Karachi, Pakistan, navigate a broken shell of a nation, and on a smaller scale, of family. These aren't kids; these 8 year olds are already adults, ripped from childhood and already gathering in groups to discuss politics and religion, to break into sectarian groups as their parents do. It is absolutely heartbreaking and devastating.… Expand

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