Academy Award-winning filmmaker Andrea Arnold is back with her first narrative feature since 2016’s “American Honey” with “Bird,” which just got a new trailer from Mubi before it releases in theaters this fall.

“Bird” is a coming-of-age drama about 12-year-old Bailey (newcomer Nykiya Adams), a girl living in poverty in Kent, England with her charismatic but unstable single father, Bug (Academy Award nominee Barry Keoghan), who has a big tattoo of a centipede on his face and neck. One day, she meets a strange man named Bird (Franz Rogowski), who helps her see the world in a new way.

IndieWire, which first shared the trailer, describes “Bird” as “surreal” and “dreamlike,” and quotes Keoghan as saying Arnold did not provide a script for the film and ran the production in a way that’s “pure, spontaneous, and instinctive,” stripping the actors’ performances down to a point where they’re not acting in a traditional sense,...