Dir: Andrea Arnold
Cast: Nykiya Adams, Barry Keoghan, Franz Rogowski
119 mins

The long-awaited return to fiction filmmaking from Academy Award-winner Andrea Arnold (American Honey, Fish Tank), BIRD is a tender, striking and extraordinarily surprising coming-of-age fable about marginalised life in the fringes of contemporary society.

12-year-old Bailey (astounding newcomer Nykiya Adams) lives with her devoted but chaotic single dad Bug (Barry Keoghan, Saltburn) and wayward brother Hunter in a squat in Gravesend, north Kent. Approaching puberty and seeking attention and adventure, Bailey’s fractured home life is transformed when she encounters Bird (Franz Rogowski, Passages), a mysterious stranger on a journey of his own. A wondrous portrait of the transition from childhood to adolescence that remains grounded in her typically empathetic social realism, Arnold’s latest strides to the wildly poetic rhythm of her own drum.

“A magical, energetic marvel from one of the UK’s finest filmmakers” Little White Lies

“Beautiful, unique and full of surprises” Total Film

“A touching coming-of-age story . . . Barry Keoghan is pitch-perfect” Metro

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