Bird
Filmhouse88 Lothian Road
Mon 12 Oct · 18:00
About this event
This film contains flashing images which may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy. Book tickets for two or more of our Rip It Up: Find Your Own Way films in the same transaction to receive a discount! 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. Showing as part of our Rip It Up: Find Your Own Way season of films celebrating youth culture and coming of age in the UK, programmed by young people across Edinburgh. Supported by funding from the BFI delivered through Film Hub Scotland.
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