If you want to impress your dining companions in Cyprus, it's not caviar that you order, but ambelopoulia: a tiny songbird. But as this gripping doc reveals, the cost to bring such delicacies to the table is enormous. Bestselling novelist Jonathan Franzen takes a break from the world of fiction to guide us through an all too horrifying reality: tens of millions of protected migratory songbirds are illegally killed every year. Franzen, a longtime bird lover, accompanies young staffers of the Committee Against Bird Slaughter on their expeditions. With police enforcement in Southern Europe practically non-existent, they risk their lives to rescue trapped birds, and confront hostile poachers. It's a topic that proves a cultural flashpoint -- the Cypriot landowners cannot understand why a bunch of Italians can tell them what to do on their land.
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Emptying the Skies was released in 2015 and has generally received positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 8 reviews, giving Emptying the Skies (2015) an average rating of 73%.
Overall, cinema-goers and film critics broadly agree on the merits of the movie, with critics giving it an average score of 77% and users giving an average score of 76%.
With a score of 73%, Emptying the Skies is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 2015, which stands at 58%.
Other movies from 2015 with similar scores include films like Avengers: Age of Ultron, Ant-Man and McFarland, USA.
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