Vue Lumière has announced that writer-director Dylan Southern’s The Thing with Feathers will now release in UK and Irish cinemas on November 21, 2025. The film, based on Max Porter’s novella Grief is the Thing with Feathers, stars Academy Award and BAFTA nominee Benedict Cumberbatch.
Porter’s novella won the 2016 International Dylan Thomas Prize and was shortlisted for both The Guardian’sFirst Book Award and The Goldsmith’s Prize and was also a Sunday Times top 100 novel of the 21st century.
Left to raise two young sons after the unexpected death of his wife, DAD’s life begins to unravel. Grief is messy and chaotic enough as it is, but when it takes the form of an unhinged and unwanted houseguest – CROW – taunting him from the shadows, things start to spiral out of control…but maybe that’s exactly what DAD needs.
Watch the film’s stylish new trailer in the player below:
Dylan Southern’s previous work includes three acclaimed music documentary features, and he is a multi award-winning director of commercials and music videos. THE THING WITH FEATHERS is produced by Andrea Cornwell, Leah Clarke and Adam Ackland it is a Lobo Films & SunnyMarch Production, with Film4 and the BFI (awarding National Lottery funding), in association with Align, Uncommon Creative Studio, MK2 and Rank and File, in co-production with Film I Vast and Filmgate Films.
The Thing with Feathers will release in UK and Irish cinemas on November 21, 2025.
