A runaway hen, a crumbling seaside restaurant and the fragile human dramas she quietly witnesses.

Told almost entirely from the perspective of a Leghorn chicken, this captivating and highly original drama follows her escape from an industrial farm and her arrival at a fading Greek seaside restaurant — a place where family tensions, smuggling operations and quiet tragedies unfold just beyond her coop.

Blending droll humour, tenderness and suspense, Pálfi uses the hen’s viewpoint to reveal the absurdity, cruelty and compassion of the humans around her. A poetic, singular film that’s unlike anything else you will see on a cinema screen this year.

Director: György Pálfi

Cast: Yannis, Kokiasmenos, Maria Diakopanagiotou, Argyris Pantazaras, Machmout Bamerni, Chronis Barbarian — plus eight trained chickens in the lead role!

In Greek with subtitles