Jackdaw Boy

Jackdaw Boy
  • Release date: 18 Apr 2012
  • Release year: 2012
  • Runtime: 81 minutes
  • Country: Netherlands
  • Keywords: father, boy, father son relationship, 10 year old, 10 year old boy, home, home life, volatile father, absent mother, abandoned baby jackdaw
Plot:
Since his mother left them, autistic schoolboy Jojo lives with his father, a security guard, stretching the man's patience with his erratic behavior and constant trouble at school and in the water polo team, where coach Deniz does a remarkable job controlling him without actual expulsion. Jojo finds a baby jackdaw tat fell out of the nest and gets attached to it, also improving his bond with classmate Yenthe. Jojo braves father's orders to put it back in the nest, leading to an unprecedented clash, but their bond prevails while the bird gets killed.
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