Kiki the canary only knows his cage and the old lady who feeds him. He dreams of flying with the free birds from outside. When at last the door of the cage stays open, he escapes and discovers the big outside where it’s necessary to know how to fly. Finally, being a free bird, it’s scary.

Director Biography

Julie Rembauville and Nicolas Bianco-Levrin are French animation filmmakers and children’s book authors. They have worked together since 2003 and have co-directed around 30 short films using various techniques (stop-motion, paper cut-out, and drawings), including Kroak (2008), Ben Hora (2010), [R] (2011), and Minoule (2014), which screened at several international festivals. Their short, Once Upon Three Times, screened in competition in Annecy in 2016.