
My Father’s Shadow leads the nominations for the 2025 British Independent Film Awards with 12, including Best British Independent Film, along with Best Director and Best Debut Director for Akinola Davies Jr.

My Father’s Shadow leads the nominations for the 2025 British Independent Film Awards with 12, including Best British Independent Film, along with Best Director and Best Debut Director for Akinola Davies Jr.

Father by Tereza Nvotová was awarded the Golden Eye in the Feature Film Competition at the 21st Zurich Film Festival.
Benedict Cumberbatch stars in The Thing With Feathers as a widowed father trying to hold his family together, alongside Richard Boxall and Henry Boxall as his two young sons. The film offers a chilling, sorrow-soaked look at grief manifesting in haunted form.

Benedict Cumberbatch will be honored with the prestigious Golden Eye Award at Zurich Film Festival for his career and performance in the drama film The Thing With Feathers. He will also give insights into his career at a ZFF Masters.

Briarcliff Entertainment has acquired The Thing With Feathers, the narrative feature film debut from writer-director Dylan Southern, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, alongside newcomers Richard Boxall and Henry Boxall. It is described as a bold, genre-bending adaptation of Max Porter’s acclaimed novella Grief Is the Thing With Feathers.