Hen

Hen
2025 96 min.
She will definitely not tolerate anything anymore where she was born. So she sets out into the world. But life outside is not easy. After a few wild adventures, she finally finds what others of her kind only dream of. Love and a new home. However, she has no idea that a smuggler's den is hatching right next to her freshly laid eggs... Hungarian provocateur György Pálfi (Taxidermia, Final Cut) tells a tragicomic parable about freedom, the fight against the system and the desire for motherhood through the eyes of a feathered heroine.
The film’s atmosphere is heightened by Erik Mischijew’s sound design and, above all, the folk music of Szabolcs Szöke, a virtuoso on the gadulka, a traditional Bulgarian stringed instrument.
The original darkly humorous drama with an unexpected star received an Honorable Mention at the Toronto Film Festival.
Sections: Film & Music
Country: Germany, Greece, Hungary
Directed by: György Pálfi
Starring: Yannis Kokiasmenos, Maria Diakopanayotou, Argyris Pandazaras, Antonis Kafetzopoulos, Antonis Tsiotsiopoulos
Language: Greek with Czech and English subtitles
Supported by:
Side event (only for selected shows)
09.04. 8:30 p.m.
Prague - Edison Filmhub
10.04. 7:30 p.m.
Prague - Edison Filmhub
11.04. 5 p.m.
Prague - Edison Filmhub
12.04. 6 p.m.
Prague - Edison Filmhub
13.04. 7:30 p.m.
Prague - Edison Filmhub
Uncompromising film critic, music and festival dramaturg, presenter of the radio podcast Čelisti and leading psychosomatician Aleš Stuchlý has been leading a successful curatorial block of healing screenings called Mental Hygiene for the seventh year. Top films with insightful introductions and maximum side effects, the possibility of a personal therapeutic session after the closing credits in the form of heated discussions with fresh guests, all in his home theatre, Edison Filmhub.
DEF 2026 // 9. – 14. 4. 2026 // Mental Hygiene at Edison Filmhub
➡︎ Thursday 9 April, 8.30pm: Little Trouble Girls, dir. Urška Djukić (SL) // host: online Vladimir Gojun
➡︎ Friday 10 April, 7.30pm: Wolves, dir. Jonas Ulrich (CH) // host: Jara Sofija Ostan
➡︎ Saturday 11 April, 5.00pm: Reedland / Rietland, dir. Sven Bresser (NL) // host: Martin Pleštil
➡︎ Sunday 12 April, 6.00pm: The Stranger / L'Étranger, dir. François Ozon (FR) // host: David Čeněk
➡︎ Monday 14 April, 7.30pm: Hen, dir. JGyörgy Pálfi (HU) // host: Antonín Tesař
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Th 09.04. 8 p.m.
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