Kura

The main character of the new film by Hungarian director György Pálfi is the eponymous hen. A seemingly defenseless animal escapes from an industrial poultry farm in search of a safe place to raise its chicks.

She ends up in a Greek seaside village, where she is captured by the owner of a dilapidated restaurant and forcibly “enters” the human world. She is an attentive observer of a reality completely alien to her. He also becomes a silent witness to human dramas related to the migration crisis, family conflicts or greed.

The main character was played by eight real Hungarian hens: Eszti, Szandi, Feri, Enci, Eti, Enikő, Nóra and Anett.