Synopsis
Teenagers Birdboy and Dinki have decided to escape from an island devastated by ecological catastrophe: Birdboy by shutting himself off from the world, Dinki by setting out on a dangerous voyage in the hope that Birdboy will accompany her.
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Cast
- Andrea AlzuriDinki (voice)
- Eva OjangurenSandra (voice)
- Josu CuberoZorrito (voice)
- Félix ArcarazoBirdman (voice)
- Jorge CarreroFalso Padre de Dinki (voice)
- Nuria MarínMadre de Dinki / Madre de Zacarías (voice)
- Josu VarelaSeñor Reloggio (voice)
- Jon GoiriZacarías / Pato Hinchable (voice)
- Maribel LegarretaAraña (voice)
Recommendations
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Village Voice
Birdboy: The Forgotten Children is its own unique, damaged creature. - 83
IndieWire
This is a beautiful film, and an ugly one, and the tension between those two sides doesn’t abate until the very last scene. - 80
Variety
Though at first glance this ironically-sweet-and-very-sour mix might seem unappetizing, even repellent, it soon becomes fascinating in its oddball complexity. - 80
Los Angeles Times
As adult animation goes, Birdboy is its own weird, woolly and surprisingly sensitive foray into the grimmer corners of life. But at its best, when Vázquez and Rivero hit the right mix of melancholy and acidic in their battered fever dream, it plays like a troubled schoolkid’s secret drawings brought to colorful, if unapologetically horrific, life. - 75
Slant Magazine
Alberto Vázquez and Pedro Rivero's film is a phantasmagoria of impressionistic horror, at once despairing, beautiful, haunting, and surreal. - 75
RogerEbert.com
The movie is grisly and its sense of humor is mordant, but it winds up communicating a heartbreak that’s pretty straightforward, all things considered. - 75
The Playlist
What makes Birdboy: The Forgotten Children so effective is the ability to turn the innocent into the macabre. - 70
The New York Times
Its enchantments are dark, its ideas somber and brutal.
