Synopsis
Birdboy: The Forgotten Children (Psiconautas, los niños olvidados, 2015) is a dark Spanish animated film you can watch online on iFILM. A drama with a streak of fantasy, made for adults rather than kids.
An industrial disaster has wrecked the island. Half of it drowns in toxic waste while its animal-people pick through the dumps for scraps of copper. Dinki, a schoolgirl mouse, dreams of leaving with her friends. Her hope rests on her ex, a quiet birdboy hiding in the woods from hunters and wrestling a demon that's eating him alive. Under the soft fur sit drugs, depression and a despair no child should carry.
Alberto Vázquez and Pedro Rivero adapted Vázquez's own graphic novel and walked off with the Goya for Best Animated Feature. The art looks gentle; the stories beneath it are about a broken generation. Heavy, beautiful and honest — "there is light and beauty, even in the darkest of worlds." Stream Birdboy: The Forgotten Children (2015) online on iFILM.
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