The Sparrow in the Chimney (German: Der Spatz im Kamin) is a Swiss drama film, directed by Ramon Zürcher.

The film, starring Maren Eggert, Britta Hammelstein, Andreas Döhler, Luise Heyer and Milian Zerzawy, is the third part of a trilogy about family life, after The Strange Kitten and The Girl and the Spider, which the director created together with his twin brother Silvan Zürcher.

Other roles are played by Milian Zerzawy as Karen's brother-in-law Jurek and Luise Heyer as the arsonist Liv, who lives nearby and spent a long time in a psychiatric hospital.

[12] Reviewing for Cineuropa, Giorgia Del Don wrote, "A kind of dystopic fairy tale with horror film overtones, the movie transports the audience to a cruel but sincere world where people have freed themselves from the dictates of a society intent on assigning roles to each of us at birth, and are finally discovering their true, wild, defiant, animal nature.

"[13] Guy Lodge reviewing in Variety said, "The Sparrow in the Chimney may be a crowded work, sparking and seizing with nervous energy, but there’s a mutually enhancing tension between the rough-and-tumble of the drama and the refinement of the filmmaking.

"[14] PopMatters put it in their annual listicle, comparing it to The Lion In Winter and The Royal Tenenbaums:"What makes Ramon Zürcher’s film stand out from the realm of indie family drama is the way it is shot and edited.