BBFF26 Hen

“With great power comes great responsibility” – but what if the hero is just a hen? Escaping from a chicken farm, a black-feathered outsider finds refuge in the courtyard of a crumbling restaurant on the Greek coast. There she discovers love, confronts the pecking order and fights to protect her eggs. György Pálfi, the visionary director of Taxidermia and Hukkle, charts her funny adventures and hair-raising escapes from a remarkable bird’s-eye perspective. Made with real trained hens and without CGI or AI, Hen is a technically brilliant tragicomedy full of heart, wit and feathers, using its unlikely heroine to reflect on the human world around her. This session includes short films