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.
トラックリスト
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
実話とヘレン・マクドナルドの同名受賞回顧録に基づく『H IS FOR HAWK』は、人と自然の絆、そして愛によって喪失を癒す可能性を描いた感動の旅路である。
トラックリスト主演はクレア・フォイとブレンダン・グリーソン、監督はフィリッパ・ロウソープ。脚本はローソープとエマ・ドノヒューが担当。製作はデデ・ガードナー＆ジェレミー・クライナー。
最愛の父を亡くしたヘレンは深い悲しみに沈み、父と鳥を観察し自然を探検した日々を思い出に浸る。やがて自らハイタカを調教するという考えに没頭し、恐ろしい猛禽メイベルをケンブリッジの自宅に連れ帰る。最も野生の動物を調教するという困難な過程に挑む覚悟で、ヘレンは冷凍庫を鷹の餌で満たし、携帯電話の電源を切る。しかしメイベルに狩りの方法や単独飛行を教える苦労を重ねるうちに、ヘレンは自身の感情や人生がどれほど疎まれていたかを痛感する。
本作は2025年8月にテルライド映画祭でワールドプレミアを迎え、BFIロンドン映画祭でも上映された。『H Is For Hawk』はこれらの映画祭でのプレミア上映後、特にクレア・フォイの演技に対してアカデミー賞候補の噂が既に浮上している。
エミリー・ルヴィエネーズ＝ファルーシュは、アイヴァー・ノヴェロ賞、英国独立映画賞（BIFA）ノミネート、HMMA受賞歴を持つ作曲家兼アーティストで、ロンドン在住。ビル・ナイとエイミー・ルー・ウッド主演、ソニー・ピクチャーズ・クラシック配給のBAFTA、ゴールデングローブ賞、アカデミー賞ノミネート作品『生きる LIVING』の音楽を担当。近作には、ジョー・ライト監督によるパラマウント+シリーズ『The Agency』の音楽、フルール・フォルトゥネの長編デビュー作『アセスメント ～愛を試す７日間～』の音楽、さらにサーチライト・ピクチャーズ製作でBAFTAノミネート作品となった『異人たち』の音楽も手がけている。
過去の主な作品には、Netflix配信開始週に全世界で最高視聴数を記録した『スヘルデの戦い』、MGM配給の『映画検閲』がある。『映画検閲』のサウンドトラックはインヴァーダ・レコード（『パワー・オブ・ザ・ドッグ』『モノス』『ムーンライト』）よりヴァイナル盤及びデジタル配信でリリースされた。その他の作品には、サラ・ガヴロン監督によるBAFTA受賞作『Rocks／ロックス』、ハリー・ウートリフ監督によるBAFTAノミネート作『ONLY YOU』（サウンドトラックはSpotifyで400万回以上再生）がある。2023年には、ナサニエル・マルテッロ＝ホワイト監督によるNetflix作品『彷徨い』の音楽を担当し、同作はNetflixの全世界チャートで首位を獲得した。
エミリーは、ビジュアルアーティストのダニカ・ダキッチ、アリス・メイ・ウィリアムズ、ナターシャ・カルアナと共同で、ジャーウッド・プロジェクト・スペース、スピーク・ホール、ODI、アルル写真祭で展示された映像インスタレーションの音楽を手がけた。2015年には、ロンドンのクイーン・エリザベス・オリンピック・パーク向けにサウンドウォークの制作を委嘱された。また、複数のクラシック楽器奏者から、彼らのレパートリーのための楽曲作曲を委嘱されている。
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