Penguin Bloom

ParShikasta

2025

A symbolic short film where a bird becomes the echo of human longing.

The Starling

2021 · ★ 6.9

A woman adjusting to life after a loss contends with a feisty bird that's taken over her garden — and a husband who's struggling to find a way forward.

Skellig

2009 · ★ 6.1

An ordinary boy named Michael is going through some extraordinary changes in his life. His family has just moved into an unfamiliar house, and his brand new baby sister has fallen ill. One day, while cleaning out the garden shed, he stumbles across something mysterious, a strange creature huddled in the corner; weak of body but strong of will. This is Skellig.

Yes, some birds are funny when they talk...

2022

A young man walks around town, after deciding against taking his own life, and comes across a dying bird--to which he chooses to offer shelter.

The Unicorn

2024 · ★ 10

Unicorn Human Disease is an extremely rare phenomenon in certain traditional societies. Research indicates that this disease is typically caused by feelings of isolation and the repression of personal sexual instincts, with the most prominent symptom being the growth of a horn on the patient's forehead.

Kes

1970 · ★ 7.4

Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy Casper, a 15-year-old working-class Yorkshire boy, tames and trains his pet kestrel falcon whom he names Kes. Helped and encouraged by his English teacher and his fellow students, Billy finally finds a positive purpose to his unhappy existence.

My Milk Cup Cow

2014 · ★ 6.6

The father tells his daughter Nunu a lie that there is a cow in her milk cup. She believes it and drinks up milk, but there isn't any cow. Her father tells her a variety of lies, which Nunu finds increasingly difficult to believe.

Oh'phelia: A Cartoon Burlesque

1919 · ★ 5

Cut-out animated parody of Hamlet by pioneering British animator Anson Dyer.

A Bird in the Field

When an ornithologist’s funding gets cut, her nurturing of abandoned bird eggs leads to a transformation as her marriage crumbles.

The Seventh Brother

1995 · ★ 6.4

After his owners abandon him in the woods, a puppy befriends a family of rabbits.

Jonathan Livingston Seagull

1973 · ★ 6.1

Jonathan is sick and tired of the boring life in his seagull clan. He rather experiments with new, always more daring flying techniques. Since he doesn't fit in, the elders expel him from the clan. So he sets out to discover the world beyond the horizon in a quest for wisdom.

The Last of the Curlews

1972 · ★ 8.8

After being hunted to near-extinction, the last male Eskimo curlew searches for a mate while making the annual migration from the arctic tundra to the nesting grounds in Argentina.