Bird Movies

A film killing itself.

During Mass, a boy dreams of a rainforest. There, he miraculously unlocks the ability to understand all sounds of the world.

Western Australia's iconic black cockatoos are in crisis. Their numbers have fallen dramatically over the past few decades and all three species in...

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...

A contemporary fairytale about the relationship between a mother and her autistic daughter, and their fascination with starling murmurations. Evie...

The peculiar trait of the cuckoo, which tricks another bird into hatching her egg for her, is shown in color photography.

A Secrets of Life short about the tawny owl.

This very short documentary from the Hinterland’s Who’s Who series is an introduction to the canvasback duck.

The film shows a cuckoo caught in the act of laying an egg in the nest of two titlarks. The egg is hatched by the foster-mother, and she and her mate...

In Go Tell It to the Mountain, the speculative realms of archaeology and forensics intersect with these rumours. The word-of-mouth stories blur the...

In the shadows of a Cold War Military depot, a colony of pint-sized predators faces an uncertain future as one owl biologist races to save it from...

Cuckoos are brood parasites who they lay their eggs in the nests of other bird species, a clever trick that spares the rearing and feeding of their...

The starling is a common bird that lives in close proximity to humans. It nests in hollows in trees, under roof tiles or in bird boxes. In Mikael...

On the unspoilt banks of the Save River lies the Lonjsko Polje Nature Park. Numerous species have made this green setting their home. But the star of...

What do we have to learn from dead things and the people who love them? For some, vulture culture offers a deeper connection to nature. For others,...

The film presents one season in the life of the sometimes hard to find Satin Bowerbird - the fascinating "Playboy of the rainforest" whose...

At Arolla Film, we strive to positively motivate people to protect wildlife through our work. Sometimes, however, the devastation of nature is so...

This documentary tells the story of the inimitable kea. The 'Clown of the Alps' is heralded as the world’s smartest bird (its intelligence...