Bird

12-year-old Bailey lives with her single dad Bug and brother Hunter in a squat in North Kent. Bug doesn’t have much time for his kids, and Bailey, who is approaching puberty, seeks attention and adventure elsewhere.

Saxophone player Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker comes to New York in 1940 and is quickly noticed for his remarkable way of playing. He becomes a drug addict but his loving wife Chan tries to help him.

5 kids are working for a dark man called 'Çatal'. They find a baby in a trash bin, and because of Mercan's motherly instincts, they decide to take care of the baby; named 'Gülayşe'. Çatal, the bad guy notices the baby, thus the chaos begins by hurting him and killing a woman accidentaly who was looking for the baby. Frightened kids decide to abandon their territory. Gülayşe, the baby, is the daughter of a wealthy family couple, Bahar and Hafız Eyüboğlu. Her uncle, the boss of Çatal, kidnaps his niece for his agenda. To protect Ali from this murder, the kids agree to tell strangers they are siblings. And, a new life opens its doors when they meet a guy in their own cafe.

When Sam, a woman mired in regret, goes to visit her aged parents, the disappearance of her mother's pet bird threatens to unravel her tenuous hold on life.

While running for her life, a witness with fragmented memories of a brutal murder crosses paths with a reluctant criminal in the midst of a heist gone wrong.

A 10 billion won insurance murder case causes Oh Ha Naui to lose everything. She sets out to take revenge upon Chun Mi Ja who caused her misfortune.

A visual and aural riff on the pioneering films of the Children’s Film Fund producer / director Mary Field and her early work for the Secrets of Nature series, Bird is aimed at general audiences with a particular focus on children.With a score by the influential electronic music composer Matthew Herbert, Bird is as much about observation and environment as education and spectatorship, inviting audiences to consider the ways in which cinematic tools – camera, lens, colour, movement, voice, sound – heighten and humanise our interpretation of the natural world.Filmed on 35mm transferred to HD video.

A short video by Kyle Canterbury.

Bird is a story of a boy, a bird, and a bad choice. Lots of silence can say more than words, especially when it says... remorse.

A woman connects with her blind pet dove.

Bird is a hybrid documentary, which follows the life of Bernardo Assis from the moment he is kicked out of the house by his mother for coming out as a transgender man. The film follows Bernardo's search for a place to stay and his friends' welcome, his routine with health care and with the homonymous play, which he was cast in at the time. The hybrid nature of the film leads us through real images of Bernardo's life; allegorical images made with a microscope; confessional images in video-selfie, where Bernardo deals with his inner demons and images from the play, which dialogue with the moments of the film. Bernardo lives, performs and makes fiction. It's what helps him get through this moment.

A young boy accidentally squeezes his pet bird to death. At sunset the bird resurrects itself and confronts the boy with his actions.

A visual and aural riff on the pioneering films of the Children's Film Fund producer/director Mary Field and her early work for the Secrets of Nature series.

An lonely woman is haunted by a mysterious machine.

"Bird" is the story of a college track star training for the Olympics who is accused of a crime. Directed by Booker Mattison.

This film is based on concepts of panic attacks and ornithophobia. The girl suffers from a feeling of great discomfort that comes without warning, like an uncontrollable disaster. When the panic is accompanied by a flapping of wings, a chaotic, dissociated journey into her unconsciousness begins.

"A musing on eggs, fertility, the contraceptive pill, and women. This film was part of an egg-based piece I was commissioned to make for Woolgather’s ‘Art Vend’ project." — M.J.

This portrait of a guinea fowl is the first clear vision I've had of the hot-blooded dinosaurs still living among us. (SB)