2026

This year we raised enough money for SIFF to sponsor three films. After the votes were tallied, we chose the following films:

HEN (Germany, György Pálfi)
A runaway hen finds refuge in a crumbling Greek taverna and bears witness to a human-smuggling operation. Hen proves motherhood looks the same across species. If you think this is a goofy movie about a chicken, you couldn’t be more wrong.

Franz (Czek Republic, Agnieszka Holland)
How do you make sense of Franz Kafka? With fictional interviews with Kafka’s friends and family and thrilling plunges into his fiction, Franz does not explain, but playfully and inventively explores the man and his work.

Lady (United Kingdom, Samuel Abrahams)
In this absurdly hilarious mockumentary, a young filmmaker agrees to film the behind-the-scenes vanity project of the obnoxiously entitled Lady Isabella, only for something unseen and quite strange to happen.