“It’s a fragile but beautiful vision, and marks the strongest blend yet of Andrea Arnold’s primary directives as a filmmaker.”
—The Independent

“There’s value to holding onto that child’s-eye view, and BIRD, more than anything, is an ode to that fact.”
—New York Magazine

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 marginalized life in the fringes of contemporary society. Twelve-year-old Bailey (astounding newcomer Nykiya Adams) lives with her devoted but chaotic single dad Bug (Barry Keoghan) 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), 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.