On the Icelandic archipelago of Vestmannaeyjar, teenagers Birta and Selma participate in a neighborhood custom that dates again to the introduction of electrical energy to the area within the early twentieth century. Scanning their city’s streets, the pair determine younger puffins who’ve mistaken synthetic gentle for the moonlight, and cause them to the protection of the ocean. Directed by the UK filmmaker Jessica Bishopp, this poignant coming-of-age documentary captures Birta and Selma at a pivotal second of adolescence as they navigate their very own unsure futures. Traversing misty moors from nightfall till daybreak, the ladies grapple with their very own sense of belonging on the island and ponder what their futures maintain. Set towards the rugged fantastic thing about Iceland’s shoreline, Puffling meditates on the precarious nature of dwelling for younger puffins and folks alike on this small, idiosyncratic slice of earth.
