The Black Hen - Sunday 12th March 5pm

We come to another film in our 'accidental theme' of child stars this week – The Black Hen – which features two young boys searching for their lost chicken in Nepal. The real drama is the backdrop of the growing civil war in their region; the two lads set out to find the bird, oblivious to the danger this will bring to them. "A gentle, humane and beautifully photographed movie from Nepalese director Min Bahadur Bham, whose short film ‘The Flute’ and then this debut feature were hits at the Venice film festival", says Peter Bradshaw in the Guardian, but the civil war brings moments of violence to this  'bucolic calm'.