37th edition
18-26 january 2025

Birds Get Vertigo Too

Sarah Cunningham

Image Birds Get Vertigo Too
France
2009 Fiction 20 min
Barnz and Shaena live together in a Welsh travelling circus, where Shaena performs aerial acrobatics on a metal ring with Barnz as her counterweight. Each depends on the other, both onstage and off. The show is about to go on ... but sometimes birds get vertigo too.
Image : Sarah Cunningham
Editing : Pascale Hannoyer
Sound : Matthieu Perrot
Editing son : Julie Roué
Production : La Fémis
After studying classics at Cambridge University, Sarah worked in Bombay as a documentary camera operator. She graduated in cinematography from La fémis.