H Is for Hawk

H Is for Hawk (2025) is a British drama you can watch online on iFILM. Directed by Philippa Lowthorpe, with Claire Foy and Brendan Gleeson. A Film4 and Plan B Entertainment production, 114 minutes.

Helen Macdonald is a falconer and academic. When her father dies, she does not grieve the expected way. She buys a goshawk — a wild, fast, barely tameable bird named Mabel — and retreats into the wet fields of Cambridgeshire. Training Mabel takes everything she has. That is the point. Claire Foy trained in real falconry for the role; Brendan Gleeson plays her father in flashback scenes woven through the film.

The screenplay adapts Helen Macdonald's memoir, which topped the Sunday Times bestseller list and won the Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction. Stream H Is for Hawk (2025) online on iFILM.