Strange Birds
A phone call wakes me up early in the morning. My older brother got into trouble. Again. After another entanglement, I realize that I can no longer ignore the problems that follow him around, and which seem to be taking over my life. I use the camera to get answers from my family and a wall of silence melts away. Through a mix of amusing, intense, and eye-opening encounters, I begin to understand how relations in my family, especially with my mother, were influenced by an unspoken expression – Autism. Strange Birds is an intimate film that reveals an unspoken story about special parenting, autistic parenting, and the children who grow up in its shadow.
impact producer: Inbal-Roten Sagiv