Storm Boy (2019)

I watched this movie after a lengthy transpacific flight, on the last leg from Melbourne to Cairns, and I loved it (fair warning though, as some reviewers found it not appealing).
The story takes place in the remote even for Australia Coorong National Park coastline, where young Michael lives with his reclusive father.  Michale's mother was killed in a car accident and since then father and son have lived a life of fishing and isolation.  Michael's father comes off well in the film, homeschooling Michael through the grammar school years and is emotionally nurturing, even if they lack social contact.
Michael loves animals in general and birds in particular.  One day he finds a next of three pelicans who have been orphaned by a hunter, and with the help of Fingerbone Bill, an indigenous Ngarrindjeri who is equally shy of company, they grow to adulthood.  He teaches them everything and two of the three leave him.  But one stays behind, and is instrumental in a sea rescue of the father in a storm.  It is light but beautiful both in scenery and animal driven story.