Scheme Birds

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Scheme Birds

Release Date: April 26, 2019

Year	:	2019
Slogan	:	«A coming-of-age story set in a world of pigeons and violence»
Genres	:	Documentary
Production Companies	:	Sisyfos Film
Director	:	Ellen Fiske, Ellinor Hallin
Producers	:	Mario Adamson, Mark Thomas, Ruth Reid
Writers	:	Ellen Fiske, Ellinor Hallin
RunTime	:	87 mins.

As her adolescence gives way to the obligations of motherhood, troubled Gemma matures in Motherwell, her Scottish hometown, heavily dependent on the steel industry. Unfortunately for her, her hedonistic way of understanding the world does not fit in with the philosophy of the rest of the villagers, so trouble soon follows.