Screen Ashford Network
Bird (2024) + Live Q&A with Andrea Arnold
wed 26 february 2025
5pm - 9pm
Screening: 5pm - 7pm
Q&A: 7pm - 8pm
Screen Ashford Network: 8pm - 9pm
THE ASHFORD CINEMA
ELWICK PLACE, ASHFORD, TN23 1AE
Screening, Q&A, and Screen Ashford Network
Screen Ashford presents an exciting opportunity to check out Andrea Arnold‘s Bird (2024), starring Nykiya Adams and Barry Keoghan, followed by an exclusive live Q&A with Academy Award-winning director Andrea herself!
Afterwards, join the Screen Ashford team for an evening of inspiring discussion and connection-building with the Screen Ashford Network. Refreshments are provided!
Please note: The Q&A with Andrea Arnold and the Screen Ashford Network are free to attend, but the screening of Bird (2024) is £6.99 per ticket, purchased separately via The Ashford Cinema. Please also be aware that Bird (2024) is a 15-rated film, and while the Q&A is open to all ages, only those aged 15 years and older will be permitted to attend the screening.
Andrea Arnold
Andrea Patricia Arnold OBE (born 5 April 1961) is an English filmmaker and former actress. She won an Academy Award for her short film Wasp in 2005. Her feature films include Red Road (2006), Fish Tank (2009), and American Honey (2016), all of which have won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival.
Arnold’s television work includes directing the second season of the HBO series, Big Little Lies, and four episodes of the Amazon Prime Video series, Transparent. Her documentary Cow premiered at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival and played at the 2021 Telluride Film Festival.
Source: Wikipedia
Bird (2024)
The long-awaited return to fiction filmmaking from Academy Award-winner Andrea Arnold (American Honey, Fish Tank), BIRD is a tender, striking and extraordinarily surprising coming-of-age fable about marginalised life in the fringes of contemporary society. 12-year-old Bailey (astounding newcomer Nykiya Adams) lives with her devoted but chaotic single dad Bug (Barry Keoghan, Saltburn) and wayward brother Hunter in a squat in Gravesend, north Kent.
Approaching puberty and seeking attention and adventure, Bailey’s fractured home life is transformed when she encounters Bird (Franz Rogowski, Passages), a mysterious stranger on a journey of his own. A wondrous portrait of the transition from childhood to adolescence that remains grounded in her typically empathetic social realism, Arnold’s latest strides to the wildly poetic rhythm of her own drum.
