[04 March 2026] Hamnet

A boy dies. A playwright is born. And grief rewrites everything.

It is 1596. Agnes and Will Shakespeare are living an ordinary life in Stratford-upon-Avon when plague tears through their village and claims their only son, Hamnet, at eleven years old. What follows is not just a story of loss — it is a story of survival, of a mother’s ferocious love, and of a father whose only language for sorrow is the stage.

Seven years later, the world would see that grief performed — and call it Hamlet.

Winner of the 2025 TIFF People’s Choice Award, director Chloé Zhao brings Maggie O’Farrell’s beloved novel to vivid life. Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal deliver performances of shattering intimacy in this breathtaking portrait of love, loss, and what we leave behind.