Tokyo. Asuka, a young cleaning lady working the night shift, is ready to pay a high price to achieve her dream of becoming a music star. She manages to perform on a TV-talent show, but all her sacrifices backfire when she is accused of murder and is forced to reveal all the details of the dark path she has followed until then.

Birdsong tells a mesmerising story of love and courage, before and during the war. In pre-war France, a young Englishman, Stephen Wraysford, embarks on a passionate and dangerous affair with the beautiful Isabelle Azaire that turns their worlds upside down. As the war breaks out, Stephen must lead his men through the carnage of the Battle of the Somme and through the sprawling tunnels that lie deep underground beneath the battle fields. Faced with the unprecedented horror of the war, Stephen clings to the memory of Isabelle and the idyll of his former life as his world explodes around him.

Amidst moving homes, a superstitious Indian American girl struggles to bury her pet bird in fear of it haunting her.

Following the death of their mother, one sister tries to convince the other that she isn't really gone.

Two birds in a weightless world. They summon the sun with a song until an eclipse brings out the stars. BIRDSONG is an attempt to see the beginning in the end, a meditation on a world without us, a postlapsarian paradise, a kind of love at last sight.

A short film by Uncle Shortbread about the dangers of sleep deprivation, the brutality of the music industry and the power of Iggy Pop’s hip thrust.

Based on late field biologist John Sincock's experiences in Kauai.

Birdsong is an intimate portrait of the dying whistled language of the Hmong people in northern Laos

A short film about a woman who’s world begins to disappear around her.

George and Harvey, two childhood friends, decide to take a camping trip to catch up and reminisce on old times. However, their lives are changed and their friendship is challenged when they discover something that forces them to confront their worst fears.

Ornithologist Seán Ronayne from Cobh, Co. Cork is on a mission to record the sound of every bird species in Ireland – that’s nearly 200 birds. Often joined by his partner Alba, he travels to some of the country’s most beautiful and remote locations to capture its most elusive species and soundscapes: the busy seabird colony of Skellig Michael; a native woodland free from road noise in the Burren; the corncrake stronghold of Tory Island; a solitary nest in the Donegal uplands. Along the way we get to know Seán, whose hypersensitivity to sound has proven both a struggle and a strength. At once inspiring and cautionary, Seán’s journey illustrates the beauty and importance of sound, and what listening can tell us about the state of our natural world.

The Three Wise Kings travel in search of the Messiah, with unexpected obstacles on the way.

[birdsong] is a film which records the artist’s long term and intimate engagement with the people, place and environment of East Lancashire. The project was initiated by the artist asking people what they could remember about an old film called 'Whistle Down The Wind' starring Hayley Mills in 1961, which was filmed around Pendle Hill and involved many local school children. This film follows over 60 members of the local community as they remember old scenes and imagine new ones while revealing the ‘majestic’ presence and power of Pendle Hill and the surrounding countryside and revealing contemporary social issues in the process.

In the aftermath of a decision impossible to reverse, political debate is submerged in an ambient world of photoshoot, marimba and birdsong.

Elder Birdsong is an animated musical short film in which 3 elderly birds: an ailing Owl, a physically challenged native Tui, and a couple of isolated migratory Korean Godwits sing about challenges of mobility, loneliness, and self-reliance. It is through their humour and dignity that these ageing birds demonstrate their resilience and provoke us to pick up the phone and get in touch with the elderly people in our lives. The film is a collaboration between public health scholars and filmmakers in New Zealand.

As the filmmaker and his mother shave coconuts on kamyus, he interviews her about family, legacy, Guahan, and CHamoru culture.

Saxophone virtuoso Charlie Parker was a transforming talent who pioneered be-bop and changed the face of jazz improvisation. Although he died long before his time, "Bird" recorded a huge amount of material that continues to inspire musicians today. This video provides a tribute to Parker from many artists who knew and worked with him, including Red Rodney, Rufus Reid, Roy Haynes, Frank Morgan and Monte Alexander.