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The Bird Can't Fly

2008 89 min English 16
Wubly rating 6.5 IMDb rating 6.5

Melody returns to her old home to Fairlands the funeral of their daughter, June to attend. But Melody not recognize their city regains because it is almost entirely disappeared under tons of sand. She also learns that they have a 10-year-old grandson, River, has. Melody River will take into their new life, but this is fighting back. He wants to hatch the eggs of ostriches, which he has always fed with his mother. Rivers father, Scoop, a lazy musician and the man in the city post office, wants Melody leaves the city. Here are a lot of conflicts, to Melody learns the truth. But haunts as a sand storm the city, suddenly everything changes.

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Cast

30 people

Threes Anna Director · Paul Hepker Composer

Budget $2M · United States release October 1, 2007 · Produced in Ireland, Netherlands, South Africa

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Budget

$2,000,000

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Borderline Productions

Production

Ireland · Netherlands · South Africa

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Original language

English

Spoken on screen

English

Release dates

France · May 12, 2007

Cannes Film Festival

United States · October 1, 2007

AFM screening

Netherlands · January 3, 2008

Theatrical

Bulgaria

March 1, 2008 · Sofia International Film Festival

Germany

February 8, 2008 · Theatrical

Hungary

August 22, 2010 · Digital

India

November 1, 2008 · Kolkata Film Festival

Ireland

March 1, 2009 · Belfast Film Festival

Israel

September 1, 2008 · International Women's Film Festival

Lithuania

April 1, 2008 · Cinema Parvaris International Film Festival

Portugal

June 1, 2008 · Festróia Film Festival

South Africa

July 1, 2008 · Durban Film Festival

Spain

September 26, 2007 · Donostia-San Sebastian International Film Festival

Sweden

January 28, 2008 · Göteborg International Film Festival

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