Dir. Philippa Lowthorpe
2025 | 115 mins | UK, US | English
Claire Foy, Brendan Gleeson, Sam Spruell

Showing Times

• Fri 30 Jan: 11amΔ + 2pm + 5.15pm
• Sat 31 Jan: 2.30pm + 5.25pm
• Sun 1 Feb: 5.15pm* + 8.15pm
• Mon 2 Feb: 2pm + 8.20pm
• Tue 3 Feb: 2pm + 5.15pm*
• Wed 4 Feb: 2pm + 8.20pm
• Thu 5 Feb: 2pm + 5.15 pm

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Claire Foy (Wolf Hall, The Crown) stars as writer Helen MacDonald in the much-anticipated adaptation of her award-winning 2014 memoir H Is for Hawk.

Cambridge academic Helen (Foy) is stricken with grief after the unexpected loss of her beloved father (Brendan Gleeson). To recover, she retreats from the human world and turns to nature instead. Adopting and training a northern goshawk, she enters into what becomes a profoundly challenging but consoling dynamic with Mabel, the haughty, stubborn, ferocious bird she takes on.

Director Philippa Lowthorpe’s arresting adaptation boasts wonderful footage of its magnificent feathered co-star and a career-best performance from Foy as she reflects on the wilds of grief and the tenacity and indifference of the natural world.

BBFC Rating
Rated 12A – infrequent strong language, drug misuse, injury detail, sex references

Venue: Studio 74, Exeter Phoenix

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