Hen

Germany, Greece, Hungary • 2025

With great power comes great responsibility” — but what if the hero is just a hen?

Escaping from a chicken farm, she finds refuge in the courtyard of a crumbling restaurant. There,she discovers love, confronts the pecking order, and fights to protect her eggs from a greedyowner. Her droll yet touching quest for motherhood mirrors the messy compromises and silentstruggles of human lives.

György Pálfi
György Pálfi, Zsófia Ruttkay
Ioannis Kokiasmenos, Maria Diakopanagioti, Argyris Pantazaras

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96 minutes
Greek, Cackling
English
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2.39:1
5.1

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"A weirdly uplifting survival story"

Leslie Felperin
The Guardian
"A giddy career swerve for Hungarian writer-director György Pálfi"

Stephen Dalton

The Film Verdict
"Emerges as both a wildly entertaining experience and a sharp provocation"

Saulo Ferreira
Reviews on Reels
"An endurance thriller told entirely from the point of view of a hen"

Kurt Halfyard
ScreenAnarchy