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 "id": "screen/ughniyat-al-asafir-2008",
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 "slug": "ughniyat-al-asafir-2008",
 "label": {
  "en": "The Song of Sparrows",
  "ar": "أغنية العصافير"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "فيلم مجيد مجيدي عن عامل نعام يفقد عمله فيصبح سائق دراجة أجرة في طهران ويصارع لتدبير قوت أسرته.",
  "en": "The Song of Sparrows."
 },
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 "wings": [],
 "regions": [],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "the-poor-and-the-worker",
  "family-marriage-kinship",
  "humour-and-everyday-life"
 ],
 "data": {
  "format": "film",
  "relevance": "substantial",
  "titles": [
   {
    "lang": "en",
    "value": "The Song of Sparrows",
    "kind": "release"
   }
  ],
  "released": {
   "edtf": "2008",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "year"
  },
  "countries": [
   "ir"
  ],
  "languages": {
   "original": [
    "fa"
   ]
  },
  "depiction": {
   "prophet": "not-applicable",
   "companions": "not-applicable",
   "imams": "not-applicable"
  },
  "approach": "drama-of-muslim-life",
  "external_ids": {
   "wikidata": "Q1169658",
   "imdb": "tt0997246"
  },
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   "source/wikidata",
   "source/imdb"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High), screen-index lane; existence, year and identifiers verified against Wikidata and IMDb, 2026-10-16"
  },
  "reception": []
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "فيلم مجيد مجيدي عن عامل نعام يفقد عمله فيصبح سائق دراجة أجرة في طهران ويصارع لتدبير قوت أسرته. {cite:wikidata} {cite:imdb}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "screen/ughniyat-al-asafir-2008",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "A film by Majid Majidi about an ostrich-farm worker who loses his job and becomes a taxi-bicycle driver in Tehran, struggling to feed his family. {cite:wikidata} {cite:imdb}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "screen/ughniyat-al-asafir-2008",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "مجید مجیدی کی فلم جو ایک شتر مرغ کے کارکن کے بارے میں ہے جو اپنا کام کھو دیتا ہے، تہران میں ٹیکسی موٹرسائیکل چلانے لگتا ہے اور اپنے خاندان کا پیٹ پالنے کے لیے جدوجہد کرتا ہے۔ {cite:wikidata} {cite:imdb}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "screen/ughniyat-al-asafir-2008",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 0,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [],
 "related": [
  "screen/adam-2019",
  "screen/al-bulun-al-abyad-1995",
  "screen/baraka-yuqaabil-baraka-2016",
  "screen/east-is-east-1999",
  "screen/infisal-2011",
  "screen/rajul-mithl-mubin-2017",
  "screen/sukkar-banat-2007",
  "screen/waris-1979"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}