10-year-old Ellie is fascinated by nature and birds, she spends her time reading about them. One day, a few miles from school, she goes onto a little island on the Loire River to take a bird book back to the library. It's an island full of birds.

A brutal soundscape of noise combined with philosophical analysis.

A girl is sent back in time to the Soviet invasion of the Kuril Islands

When does your childhood go away? It goes away when instead of playing football with other kids you sit down and silently contemplate the river. When your thoughts don’t let you sleep, and a lightning bug beats in a pot like a heart. When poems come into your mind and you feel you really need to sing. It goes away when you suddenly realize: this summer is going away and it is the last summer of your childhood.

A selection of deleted scenes from Nanni Moretti's 1998 film "Aprile".

A prisoner sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit.

An inquisitive and seemingly unremarkable young farmer boy named Vaska (Alexandr Markov), who totes a live bird in a wooden cage; and an enigmatic old man called The Bird Saviour (painter Robert Ovakimjan). Vaska, it seems, is journeying from his own village to another, where he plans to see a young woman with whom he has fallen deeply in love.

The story presents an entertaining as well as revealing portrayal of the moral history of sex in the course of human history.

After a fatal crash involving her brother, Elsa tries to escape her corrupt & prejudiced background, making Francisco (the victim’s dad) – a wealthy family’s driver – resign himself with the unavoidable so as not to compromise his employer’s son, thus trying to gain something from the tragedy.

Man Follows Birds is a coming-of-age story of a young Uzbek poet surrounded by violence. Farouk is fascinated by trees and Khamraev films him with a lot of melancholy and tenderness. Cast apart because he’s poor and his father’s drunk, Farouk is not happy in his village. When his father dies, he decides to go in the mountains with his best friends. Looking for nature at its purest, the two teenage boys have to deal with the cruelty of violent barbarians. Their trip will also make them meet a lost orphan girl and a wise beggar.

Tom is all set to eat Jerry when a hawk swoops down and grabs Jerry. To get Jerry back, Tom poses as a female hawk and quickly finds his new lover to be more than he bargained for.

When and how do we get to the end of something? How do we make the decision to change? How does it feel when it’s time to go? A meditative video-poem on leaving, change and the flow of time.

In the film, 槑舄 (pronunciation: no drama) is a smug pilot. He lives in distress, but he will make fun of it. It reflects the lifestyle of men and women in modern cities. Although the appearance is beautiful, the hardship is only oneself. Understand, and all efforts are to live up to their own. In the world of illusory papers, people can easily lose themselves, and those who are really down-to-earth and work hard will understand the true meaning of life.

This adventure invites us to enter the heart of a story, which Daniel, a now retired drawing teacher, told us concerning a brief but striking encounter which occurred in Paris, in 1967. When an asset manager asked him to draw up a plan of a 16th-century building in the heart of Paris, he went into the flat of an enthusiastic collector of birds, nicknamed “The Bird Lady”. Her home was an exotic enchantment of birds either flying around freely or in refined cages. The more Daniel explored it, the less he felt that he was in Paris.

A short animated film by Furukawa Taku.

The Talking Bird (能言鳥) is a 1959 Hong Kong musical fantasy film directed by Bong Luk. The film was produced by Shaw Brothers and is based on the screenplay by Tin Chi Ng.

A film inspired by Aboriginal legends about the passing of the seasons

Love is said to be both a cure and an ailment. In this story, love happens to be the remedy for a desolate young man. His odious disposition changes once his Florence Nightingale enters the picture.

In a fantasy version of the Brazilian Sertão, an arid wasteland where men can shapeshift into birds of prey, SETE-PENAS is taken in as a child by CARCARÁ, an outlaw who aspires to be a local legend.

Algeria today. Past and present collide in the lives of a newly wealthy property developer, a young woman torn between the path of reason and sentiment and an ambitious neurologist impeded by wartime wrongdoings. Three stories that plunge us into the human soul of a contemporary Arab society.