Hamnet

From Academy Award-winning writer-director Chloé Zhao (Nomadland) comes the magnificent story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare’s timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.

Winner of the prestigious People’s Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival – and an anticipated frontrunner at the 2026 Academy Awards – Hamnet follows William Shakespeare's wife Agnes, played by an awe-inspiring Jessie Buckley in one of the absolute best performances of the year. Here, we see everything through her discerning eyes: her courtship with William, the birth of their first child, and the painstaking emotional unraveling that came with the death of their 11-year-old son, Hamnet.

Based on Maggie O'Farrell’s bestselling novel of the same name, Hamnet powerfully reframes literary history.