: Birdboy , a young bird haunted by inner demons and addicted to drugs, hides in a secret garden to avoid the island's violent, rifle-toting police force.
(Spanish: Psiconautas, los niños olvidados ) is a 2015 Spanish animated horror-drama film directed by Alberto Vázquez and Pedro Rivero . Based on Vázquez's graphic novel Psiconautas , it expanded on their 2011 short film, Birdboy . The film is celebrated for its unique "tragic-tainment" style, contrasting "cute" anthropomorphic characters with a grim, post-apocalyptic reality. Plot and Themes Birdboy:The Forgotten Children
: It won Best Animated Feature at the 2016 Goya Awards and was an official selection at festivals like Annecy and BFI London . : Birdboy , a young bird haunted by
The 2017 Animated Contenders: "Birdboy - The Film Experience The film is celebrated for its unique "tragic-tainment"
: The animation uses sketchy lines and a muted palette of browns and greys, with vibrant greens reserved exclusively for the secret garden where Birdboy finds peace.
The tension the film drags out of this straightforward visual imbalance is hard to overstate. Birdboy is a deeply unsettling film, The Film Experience