A cinematic close-up of a chicken's head and upper body. The bird has dark black feathers with warm auburn highlights along the neck. Its comb is red and upright, the wattles full and vivid red. The eye is large and alert with a golden-amber iris. The background is softly blurred in muted brown and grey tones, keeping full focus on the bird's face.

Hen

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About Hen

A hen’s-eye view of the world reveals the cut-throat nature of existence and puts human flaws into relief in this tragicomic tale from György Pálfi (Hukkle).

An animal protagonist – as with Jerzy Skolimowski’s donkey in EO – can take you places where people cannot penetrate. This is a coming-of-age story, but of a chicken. Surviving battery farming, a fox, traffic, the dangers of a big city, a dog and being made into soup, the hen ends up taking refuge in a crumbling Greek seaside restaurant where a human tragedy is unfolding. A filmmaking tour-de-force with real animals in real locations.
 

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MAC’s cinema programme has been generously supported by BFI Film Audience Network and Film Hub Midlands.

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