Dir. Andrea Arnold
2024 | 119 mins | UK, USA, France, Germany
Nykiya Adams, Franz Rogowski, Barry Keoghan

Showing Times

• Fri 29 Nov: 2pm + 5.30pm
• Sat 30 Nov: 5pm
• Sun 01 Dec: 6pm
• Mon 02 Dec: 2pm + 7.45pm
• Tue 03 Dec: 8.30pm
• Wed 04 Dec: 5pm
• Thu 05 Dec: 5.30pm

Barry Keoghan stars alongside newcomer Nykiya Adams in the long-awaited return to fiction storytelling from Academy Award-winner Andrea Arnold (American Honey, Fish Tank, Cow).

BIRD is a tender, striking and extraordinarily surprising coming-of-age fable about 12-year-old Bailey (Adams) who lives with her devoted but chaotic single dad Bug (Keoghan) and wayward brother Hunter (Jason Buda) 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 (a unique performance from Franz Rogowski), a mysterious stranger on a journey of his own.

Having premiered to acclaim in competition at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival, this is a wondrous portrait of the transition from childhood to adolescence that remains grounded in Arnold’s typically empathetic social realism. Here she sensuously entwines her fascination with characters vying for freedom from oppressive environments with the beauty of life and nature – all the while pushing into intriguing new directions. Both captivating and ultimately joyous, BIRD strides to the wildly poetic rhythm of the director’s own drum.

BBFC Rating

Rated 15 – very strong language, strong threat, violence, domestic abuse