Hen

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Hen

Nov 2026

1h 36m

Drama

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"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 greedy owner. Her droll yet touching quest for motherhood mirrors the messy compromises and silent struggles of human lives.

Natalia Winkelman

New York Times

5 hrs ago

In making the film, Palfi eschewed CGI and instead cast and trained eight indistinguishable hens to portray his heroine. If his ingenuity doesn’t fill you with hope for the future of cinema, I don’t know what would.

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David Ehrlich

IndieWire

6 hrs ago

B

At the risk of making the movie's side-eyed social commentary sound more didactic than it is in practice, "Hen" uses a chicken's lack of moral responsibility to highlight the mandate we have to heed our own.

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Eli Friedberg

Slant Magazine

5 days ago

2.5/4

What György Pálfi serves up falls short of a filling five-course meal, but it’s at least a pleasing morsel with a kick.

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Mike McGranaghan

Aisle Seat

1 day ago

3/4

In watching this animal, you think about – as author Douglas Adams put it – life, the universe, and everything.

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Brian Orndorf

Blu-ray.com

2 days ago

B+

Palfi oversees a most unusual adventure that also touches on existential ideas and circle of life situations, adding to an unexpectedly terrific picture.

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Robert W. Monk

Flickering Myth

3 days ago

5/5

Destined to become a classic of species-inclusive cinema, Hen takes us to a new plane of experience where humans are a ‘side thread in the story’.

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Rob R

@RT44160369 4 days ago

Clever editing and a delight in many ways, but lacked something ...

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T M

@RT55749265 Sep 6, 2026

Baby's day out' with a chicken. Not quite but an unusual film to say the least. Life from the p.o.v of an escaped factory farmed hen of the title. If you can survive the opening shot of a chickens arse pushing through an egg , then a quietly humorous and surprisingly tense little film emerges.

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Catherine W

@RT88780015 Aug 3, 2026

This was so strange and beautiful and weird. There is actually a very pleasing story here that is well worth your time.

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Sammer A

@sammer864 Jul 21, 2026

A strange movie, a good movie, but strange. it's not what you'd expect, but in away...it's. Beautiful

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F M

@Albannach May 31, 2026

An exploration of a hen's world with all its dangers and tribulations metamorphoses into a depressingly human exploration of man's inhumanity to man. Billed as a comedy (resolutely described, falsely, by critics as "Balkan" and "Hungarian") but set in a rural Greece among a flourishing people-trafficking industry, this may make you reconsider whether fowl and human are really so far apart.

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Gyorgy Palfi

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Yannis Kokiasmenos

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Maria Diakopanayotou

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Argyris Pandazaras

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Antonis Kafetzopoulos

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Argyris Pantazaras

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Synopsis

"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 greedy owner. Her droll yet touching quest for motherhood mirrors the messy compromises and silent struggles of human lives.

Director: Gyorgy Palfi
Producer: Martin Hampel, Thanassis Karathanos, Costas Lambropoulos, Giorgos Kiriakos
Screenwriter: Gyorgy Palfi, Zsofia Ruttkay
Distributor: Dekanalog
Production Co: View Master Films, Pallas Film, Twenty Twenty Vision
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Greek
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 6, 2026, Limited
Runtime: 1h 36m

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