The Documentary Sales Company 
Deckert Distribution presents:
Kestrel's Eye / Falkens Öga

Sweden 1998
89 min 
35mm
Production: Picafilm

Kestrel's Eye is a personal film about a kestrel family, living in the tower of an old village church in the south-west of Sweden. But it is also a film which shows the life of Homo Sapiens from a bird's eye view...
The film doesn't so much inform about the life of the kestrel, as draw its audience into how it feels to be a kestrel.
In its narrative form, Kestrel's Eye has as much in common with an epic fiction feature film, as with a classical wildlife film.

"An animal film for adults" Film Forum
"Transcendently lyrical! Captures animal life like no film before it!" Washington / Square News
"Remarkable and beautiful" New York Times
"This is no popcorn movie" Time Out 

Awards:
"Nordic Documentary Award", Kiruna 1998
"Main Prize", Munich 1999 
"Prix Planète" & "Prix Cinéma de Recherche", Marseille 1998

Mikael Kristersson

A Portrait of a Vagabond, 1993
Lightyears, 1992-2000