Synopsis

A special screening of H is for Hawk, with a live Q&A from director Philippa Lowthorpe, and hawk trainer Lloyd Buck.

When Helen's beloved father passes away, she's knocked sideways by grief and loses herself in memories of their time birding and exploring the natural world together. She becomes obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk, and so she brings the fearsome bird Mabel home to her life as a graduate fellow at Cambridge. Helen fills the freezer with hawk food and turns off her phone, ready to embark on the long, strange business of trying to train this wildest of animals. But as she labours to tame Mabel, a grieving Helen undergoes an untaming of her own.

A record of a spiritual journey, H Is For Hawk is a story about memory and nature and how it might be possible to reconcile death with life and love.

Rating Advice

infrequent strong language, drug misuse, injury detail, sex references

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