27. dokumentART
films & future
A small boy lives with his grandmother, who tells him that his deceased mother now lives in heaven. So he can see her again, he makes the decision to catch as many birds as possible, so that when they fly into the night sky they will lead him to her. Mocked by the local children, he persists until his grandmother says he should be concerned by the fact that these birds too have children, and that they need looking after also. In classic fairy tale style, Birds deals with loss and the attempt to overcome it, from a child‘s point of view.