Penguin Bloom

Heilig Zwijgen

June 2024 •Dutch

Little Wing

March 2024 •English

For 13-year-old Kaitlyn, her world threatens to collapse when she learns that her parents want to get a divorce, especially because it threatens the loss of the house they shared in Portland, which had always been Kaitlyn's home. The teenage girl has dark thoughts and lost interest in life. The breeding pigeons given to her by her mother's police colleague don't make things any better. What should she do with the birds? Then her best friend Adam gives her an idea: they could steal the very valuable racing pigeon named Granger from the local breeder Jaan Vari, sell it and use the proceeds to pay off the mortgage on her family's home. The plan initially works, but then everything seems to go wrong and Kaitlyn loses her footing even more. But surprisingly, the old man who was robbed takes care of the girl and a bond develops between the two, which ultimately leads her to a new outlook on life.

Skellig

April 2009 •English

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.

Kes

April 1970 •English

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.

Just Like A Bird

August 2021 •English

Two people who like each other got separated because their families are moving to different cities and before they go they want to meet each other for the last time. After so many years have passed and they enter adulthood where they have to learn to move on.

Ring Neck

July 2024 •English

David misses his ring-necked dove. It was his pet, his solace, and to remember the little creature he loved, he insists on adding its ashes to ink for a memorial tattoo. As the bird’s empty cage looms in his apartment and he goes about his daily work as a music engineer, the tattoo becomes infected. Avoiding the comfort of his girlfriend for weeks, his grief will soon take over his body in the most unusual way

The Unicorn

January 2024 •Persian

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.

My Milk Cup Cow

March 2014 •Chinese

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.

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

April 2022 •English

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.

A Bird Hit My Window and Now I'm a Lesbian

February 2025 •English

After a mysterious stranger shows up at Gray's doorstep holding the corpse of a dead bird, an impromptu funeral changes the way Gray views herself and her lesbian identity.

Suicide By Frames

May 2024 •Portuguese

A film killing itself.

The Seventh Brother

September 1995 •Hungarian

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

Oh'phelia: A Cartoon Burlesque

January 1919 •English

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

Dysphonias

April 2024 •Spanish

After a premonition of an unusual bird, a father loses his voice. His daughter undertakes a search to rediscover him, through an intimate narrative that explores the past, the new facets and the silences of a man who is no longer the same.

Where the Bullets Go

November 2024 •English

When a young boy shoots at a bird and misses, he embarks on a search to find where the bullet went.

Magpies

March 2025 •English

A depressed man, dressed as a gorilla, performs a stand-up comedy set.

O'o: The Last Voice of Kauai

May 2022 •English

An environmental film about human-caused extinction featuring a bird known as the Kauaʻi ʻōʻō, which was once endemic to the Hawaiian island of Kaua'i.

Aftersun

May 2022 •Catalan

Summertime. In a camping, three little girls listen to an old mysterious story about a missing kid. They start to investigate.

The Making of Moonflower

June 2021 •English

Behind the scenes documentary about the making of the two time selected film "Moonflower"

Beak

April 2004 •

BEK (Beak) is a tale about a girl who is born with wings instead of arms and a beak where a mouth should be. Unlike a real bird though, she cannot fly because she is, after all, still a girl. Hated by her father, she is driven from home and ends up joining the circus as a freak attraction. Adopted by a friendly, drunken clown she settles into her niche as a circus performer. As time goes by, she longs to be a real woman, a human, but there is no place for such a bird-creature in the world outside the circus. So, she creates her own fantasy world as she dreams about the life of a normal girl, somewhere far away from the circus. In the end, she dreams herself away from it all leaving the audience wondering if the girl was actually there, or if it was something they may have imagined – a girl with wings and a beak.