H is for Hawk (2026)

Claire Foy (The Crown) and Brendon Gleeson star as father and daughter in this heartfelt British drama that was BAFTA nominated for Outstanding British Film of the Year.

When Helen’s beloved father passes away, she is knocked sideways by grief and loses herself in memories of their time birding and exploring the natural world together.

She becomes obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk, and so she brings the fearsome bird Mabel home to her life as a graduate fellow at Cambridge. Helen fills the freezer with hawk food and turns off her phone, ready to embark on the long, strange business of trying to train this wildest of animals.

But as she labours to tame Mabel, a grieving Helen undergoes an untaming of her own.

A record of a spiritual journey, H is for Hawk is a story about memory and nature and how it might be possible to reconcile death with life and love.

Claire Foy undertook extensive falconry training for the role which has resulted in a beautiful sense of autheniticity to the scenes featuring ‘Mabel’. The film’s hawk trainers, Lloyd and Rose Buck, described Foy as a ‘natural’ when it came to handling the five birds that played Mabel.

The film is based on a 2014 memoir by naturalist Helen Macdonald.

“Claire Foy is remarkable in this tender tale”
The Independent ★★★★

“A warm and pensive adaptation”
The Telegraph ★★★★

“Claire Foy has never been better”
The Times ★★★★