Funny Birds

Charlie returns from boarding school to take care of her sick mother Laura, owner of a smallorganic egg farm in the New Jersey countryside. It's a struggle to look after her mum, run thefarm on her own and keep up with her studies. Their day-today life on the farm, already strainedby years of unspoken resentment, is turned upside down when Laura's mother Solange shows upunannounced!

Solange is an eccentric French feminist who left America many years ago. She's never had muchof a relationship with her daughter. Laura's sudden illness motivates her to reconnect. But canthese three women, opposite in so many ways, learn to live together? To combat the unexpectedbird flu epidemic that threatens the farm, they must rise above conflict. Only love and laughtercan heal old wounds and help them to accept each other's differences.

A film by Hanna Ladoul & Marco LaVia.