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  • 2018
  • Shout! Factory
  • 1 h 13 m
  • 2018
  • Shout! Factory
  • 1 h 13 m

Summary Tito is a shy 10-year-old boy who lives with his mother. Suddenly, an unusual epidemic starts to spread, making people sick whenever they get scared. Tito quickly discovers that the cure is somehow related to his missing father’s research on bird song. He embarks on a journey to save the world from the epidemic with his friends. Tito’s s...

Directed By: Gabriel Bitar, André Catoto, Gustavo Steinberg

Written By: Eduardo Benaim, Gustavo Steinberg

  • 2018
  • Shout! Factory
  • 1 h 13 m
  • 2018
  • Shout! Factory
  • 1 h 13 m

Tito and the Birds

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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Summary Tito is a shy 10-year-old boy who lives with his mother. Suddenly, an unusual epidemic starts to spread, making people sick whenever they get scared. Tito quickly discovers that the cure is somehow related to his missing father’s research on bird song. He embarks on a journey to save the world from the epidemic with his friends. Tito’s s...

Directed By: Gabriel Bitar, André Catoto, Gustavo Steinberg

Written By: Eduardo Benaim, Gustavo Steinberg

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 14 Critic Reviews
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92
Jan 27, 2019
With its giddy and hypnotic mix of oil painting backgrounds and digital animation in service of a wonderfully inventive story surrounded by kooky, immediately lovable characters, Tito and the Birds is also one of the most original animated works of the year.
By Oktay Ege Kozak FULL REVIEW
90
Jan 31, 2019
Tito and the Birds is a small marvel. Only 73 minutes long, it marries an adventurous visual imagination with a darkly provocative political parable. Its heroes may be children, but its themes are definitely adult.
By Kenneth Turan FULL REVIEW
80
Jan 27, 2019
Employing a darkly iridescent fusion of oil paint and digital embellishment, it renders a growing dystopia in shifting, seasick colors, distorted into about as much exquisite, Expressionist-inspired nightmare fuel as its family-film remit will allow.
By Guy Lodge FULL REVIEW
75
Jan 27, 2019
Just like Issa López did in Mexico with Tigers Are Not Afraid, Brazilians Gabriel Bitar, André Catoto, and Gustavo Steinberg have crafted Tito and the Birds as a powerful metaphor utilizing reality’s horrors to drive home a point too many have resigned themselves into ignoring.
By Jared Mobarak FULL REVIEW
75
Jan 25, 2019
The strength of Tito and the Birds lies in its imaginative touches like this and overall visual aesthetic, which mixes various painting and animating styles into a beautiful fusion, but the actual storytelling leaves a little depth to be desired.
By Christian Holub FULL REVIEW
70
Jan 24, 2019
The adventure plot in the Brazilian feature Tito and the Birds, directed by Gustavo Steinberg, Gabriel Bitar, and André Catoto, is no great shakes — it wouldn’t be out of place on a Saturday-morning cartoon — but visually, the movie leaves room for the viewer to synthesize, and to dream.
By Ben Kenigsberg FULL REVIEW
60
Jan 23, 2019
A Danny Elfman-like score and the dark earnestness of lead voice-actor Matheus Nachtergaele's performance make this world believable enough that the film's big revelation — city pigeons, as humanity's ancient companions, know how we can stop being so paralyzed by fear — doesn't sound quite as ridiculous as it should.
By John DeFore FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Bits Produções, NIP, Split Studio
Release Date Dec 6, 2018
Duration 1 h 13 m
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Website http://bits.productions/2015/09/12/tito-e-os-passaros-em-desenvolvimento/
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Awards

Chicago International Children's Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Sitges - Catalonian International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Anima Mundi Animation Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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