Yellowbird (French: Gus, petit oiseau, grand voyage) is a 2014 English-language French–Belgian CG-animated fantasy film. It was directed by Christian De Vita.^[6]

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Yellowbird
Directed by	Christian De Vita
Written by	Antoine Barraud Cory Edwards
Produced by	Corinne Kouper
Starring	Seth Green Dakota Fanning Christine Baranski Yvette Nicole Brown Richard Kind Jim Rash Danny Glover Elliott Gould
Cinematography	Laurent Fluetot
Music by	Stephen Warbeck[1]
Production companies	TeamTO Haut et Court
Distributed by	Haut et Court (France) SC Films International (international)[2]
Release dates	11 October 2014 (2014-10-11) (London Film Festival)[3] 4 February 2015 (2015-02-04) (France)
Running time	88 minutes
Countries	France Belgium
Language	English
Budget	€10 million[4]
Box office	$3.8 million [5]

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The film features the voices of Seth Green, Dakota Fanning, Jim Rash, Yvette Nicole Brown, Christine Baranski, Richard Kind, Danny Glover and Elliott Gould. Additional performances by Brady Corbet and Jamie Denbo.

Darius (voiced by Danny Glover), the leader of a flock of birds, is wounded just before it is time for the birds to migrate to Africa. Information about how to lead the migration must be passed to the first bird that encounters Darius.That is Yellowbird (Seth Green) who is excited by the challenge but has very little life experience. Karl (voiced by Jim Rash) expected to take over as leader but Yellowbird lies to the flock and leads them south for the migration. He is really only a young hatchling with no experience and endangers the flock many times. Delf (voiced by Dakota Fanning) always supports him in the beginning. He flies north by mistake, landing in Holland and not Spain. The flock then crosses the North Sea and ends up somewhere with snow. Finally Yellowbird tells the truth and it turns out the "Iron Bird" is not to be feared but really is a solution to their problem. They end up taking a plane to Africa. Yellowbird officially becomes part of the flock and everybody celebrates.