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Bird

Dir. Andrea Arnold
Constellation
Sun 3 Nov and Wed 6 Nov
Sun 3 Nov
and
Wed 6 Nov
  • Sun 3 Nov
    17:30 - 19:29
    Descriptive Subtitles
    Hyde Park Picture House, Leeds
    Screen 1
    Past event
  • Wed 6 Nov
    19:30 - 21:29
    Cottage Road Cinema, Leeds
    Screen 1
    Past event

A teen’s encounter with an ethereal stranger transforms her difficult relationship with her father, in Andrea Arnold's enchanting social drama.

Andrea Arnold (Fish Tank, American Honey) returns to LIFF with an enchanting social drama. Trapped in a squat with her hapless father (Barry Keoghan), Bailey (Nykiya Adams) often escapes to the fields surrounding her estate to comfort herself in nature. After her dad announces he’s marrying his new girlfriend, and also milking a toad of its psychedelic bodily fluids to pay for the wedding, she encounters the ethereal Bird (Franz Rogowski) in the fields searching for his long-lost family. As the two connect through their lack of familial roots, Bailey finds strength to confront the violence in her life and discovers her wings. 

"Much like Katie Jarvis in Fish Tank and Sasha Lane in American Honey, Arnold extracts another career-making performance out of her young protagonist with Nykiya Adams." - Rafa Sales Ross, The Playlist

Content Guidance


Contains scenes of domestic violence, abuse and substance use.

Director: Andrea Arnold
Running time: 119 minutes
Production year: 2024
Country: UK, USA, France, Germany
Language: English
UK distributor: MUBI
Age rating: BBFC Rating 15
Cast: Barry Keoghan, Franz Rogowski

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Constellation

Constellation is the new name for our main programme section where we preview many of the most talked about films of the year and present UK Premieres of films from exciting new filmmakers in our feature film competition.