H IS FOR HAWK

Based on a true story and an award-winning memoir of the same name by Helen MacDonald, H IS FOR HAWK is a soaring journey of the connection between people and nature, and how it might be possible to reconcile loss through love.

The film stars Claire Foy and Brendan Gleeson and is directed by Philippa Lowthorpe. The screenplay is by Lowthorpe and Emma Donoghue and Produced by Dede Gardner & Jeremy Kleiner.

When Helen's beloved father passes away, she is overtaken 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 Cambridge with her. Ready to embark on the arduous process of trying to train the wildest of animals, Helen fills the freezer with hawk food and turns off her phone. But as she labours to teach Mabel how to hunt and fly free on her own, Helen uncovers how neglected her own emotions and life have become.

The film had its world premiere at the Telluride Film Festival in August 2025 and was also screened at the BFI London Film Festival. H Is For Hawk has already generated Oscar buzz, particularly for Claire Foy's performance, following its premieres at those festivals.

Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch is an Ivor Novello, BIFA nominated and HMMA winning composer and artist, living in London. Emilie has scored the BAFTA, Golden Globe and Oscar nominated feature, Living, starring Bill Nighy and Aimee Lou Wood, released with Sony Picture Classics. More recent work includes the score for The Agency (Paramount+ series directed by Joe Wright), Fleur Fortune's feature debut The Assessment, Emilie also scored Searchlight Pictures, BAFTA nominated feature, All of Us Strangers.

Previous credits include The Forgotten Battle, which was the highest streaming film worldwide on Netflix during the weeks of its release, and Censor, released by MGM, with the score released on vinyl and digitally by Invada Records (The Power of the Dog, Monos, Moonlight). Emilie's other credits include Sarah Gavron's BAFTA winning coming of age feature Rocks, and Harry Wootliff's BAFTA-nominated debut feature Only You, with the soundtrack receiving over 4 million streams on Spotify. In 2023, she scored Nathaniel Martello White's The Strays for Netflix, which topped the platform charts worldwide.

Emilie has collaborated with visual artists Danica Dakic, Alice May Williams and Natasha Caruana on music for video installations exhibited at Jerwood Project Space, Speke Hall, The ODI, and Arles Photo Festival. In 2015, was commissioned to create a sound-walk for London's Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park. She has been commissioned by multiple classical instrumentalists to compose pieces for their repertoire.

1. Feathers
2. Feathers Variation
3. It's Dad
4. Chapel of Rest
5. Trimming the Tree
6. I Want a Goshawk
7. First Day with Mabel
8. She's Not Eating
9. Call You Mabel
10. Have to be Patient
11. Library
12. Rabbit Hunt
13. Playing
14. Hunting Rush
15. You Don't Seem Fine
16. Eulogy
17. Mabel Suite