Honorable Mention: Platform Award, Toronto International Film Festival 2025
Hen is György Pálfi’s stunning tale of a determined chicken — played by eight real-life Hungarian chickens named Eszti, Szandi, Feri, Enci, Eti, Enikő, Nóra, and Anett — who departs her wretched life on an industrial farm in search of a safe spot to raise her chicks. On her tumultuous and adventorous voyage, she encounters the darkness and cruelty of humankind.
György Pálfi (born 11 April 1974 in Budapest, Hungary) is a Hungarian filmmaker. His film Taxidermia was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival 2006. Pálfi's films have received numerous awards and nominations. At the 2002 European Film Awards, he won the European Discovery/Fassbinder Award for his début film Hukkle. At Les Arcs Film Festival in 2014, Pálfi won the first annual ARTE International Prize for the best project in development, The Voice, about a son searching for his father, a scientist who went missing 30 years ago. Two of Pálfi's films have been Hungary's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film: Hukkle and Taxidermia.
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