The film is set to be released in cinemas early next year.
Lionsgate has announced that the Philippa Lowthorpe film ‘H is For Hawk’ , based on the the novel by Helen Macdonald will be released on the 23rd January 2026. In addition artwork and a trailer for the film has been released.
Starring Claire Foy, Brendan Gleeson, Lindsay Duncan, Denise Gough, Sam Spruell, the film features a screenplay by Emma Donoghue & Philippa Lowthorpe.
When Helen’s beloved father passes away, she is 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.