August, a troubled young orphan, finds an abandoned ostrich egg and raises a giant, bird-brained best friend. When his ostrich is taken away, August risks everything to get him back.

Gabriel is installed next to a tree in a noble neighborhood of the city of São Paulo. Clarisse accompanies astonished and inert the treatment given to Gabriel, at the same time that leads a stagnant life and dependent of the mother.

An allegory of how important it is to develop a sense of beauty at a very young age and not bury your talent in the ground - because he's like a timid, magical bird that can fly up and fly away, and it will be impossible to bring it back.

The playful coupling of the Meisner Technique and the mimicry of birdsong leads to an emotional exploration into connection and intimacy.

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While running for her life, a witness with fragmented memories of a brutal murder crosses paths with a reluctant criminal in the midst of a heist gone wrong.

When Sam, a woman mired in regret, goes to visit her aged parents, the disappearance of her mother's pet bird threatens to unravel her tenuous hold on life.

Woosung, a former personal assistant for persons with disabilities, visits the home of Jung-hyun, a former client of Woosung himself, for the first time in a long time. On his way to catch the bus, he finds a dead bird. Wanting to bury it, he carefully wraps it up to find a suitable place to bury it.

A Boy and a Girl and a Bush and a Bird features Kjartansson and his longtime collaborator, Davíð Þór Jónsson, playing a small opus they composed in a rundown, but still functioning tropically, banana plantation on a freezing winter day in Iceland.