The Thing with Feathers
Closing Screening
United Kingdom | 2025 | 104 min
Language: English
Suitable for audiences aged 16 and above
Director(s): Dylan Southern
Script: Dylan Southern, based on the novel by Max Porter
Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Richard Boxall, Henry Boxall, Sam Spruell, Vinette Robinson, David Thewlis, Tim Plester
Production: Film4 Productions, British Film Institute BFI
Distribution: Future Film
Drama
Matter of Mind Filmatisation Artists Parenthood Family Première Memento Mori Debut
Screenings:
British actor Benedict Cumberbatch delivers one of the most powerful performances of his career as a grieving father vanishing into sorrow. After the sudden loss of his wife — the mother of his two young children — the man faces a situation beyond reason. He is confronted by a mysterious force in the form of a crow, yet this presence does not seek to devour him, but to guide him through the darkness.
The Thing with Feathers is remarkably subtle and visually arresting, exploring grief in a way that is bold and terrifying — yet also poetically beautiful. Southern’s background in music documentaries resonates through the rhythm and atmosphere of the film: each scene breathes, and silence speaks.
Timo Kuismin
