From Academy Award® winning writer/director Chloé Zhao, Hamnet tells the powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare’s timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.

Hamnet premiered at the 52nd Telluride Film Festival on 29 August 2025 and received a limited theatrical release by Focus Features in the United States and Canada on 26 November.

Dec 12, 2025 · Chloé Zhao's Hamnet, which draws from William Shakespeare's personal and professional life, is a tragic window into the depths of despair.

Dec 5, 2025 · After losing their son Hamnet to plague, Agnes and William Shakespeare grapple with grief in 16th-century England. A healer, Agnes must find strength to care for her surviving children …

Sep 8, 2025 · Hamnet invents many other facets of Shakespeare’s history. It dreams up the courtship of young William (Paul Mescal), then a Latin tutor, and slightly older Agnes Hathaway (Jessie Buckley), …

Watch the official trailer for HAMNET, winner of the 2025 TIFF People's Choice Award. Starring Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal, directed by Chloé Zhao. Only in theaters this Thanksgiving.

2 days ago · A star rating of 5 out of 5. While it’s tempting to call Hamnet ‘Shakespeare in Grief’, that’s rather doing Chloé Zhao’s masterly study of loss a disservice. The last time the Bard so ...

From Academy Award® winning writer/director Chloé Zhao, Hamnet tells the powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare’s timeless masterpiece, Hamlet.

Nov 27, 2025 · The conceit of the novel and the film is that the tragic death of Shakespeare's 11-year-old son – the titular Hamnet – fed into the writing of the greatest play in the English language, Hamlet.

2 days ago · Meanwhile, Hamnet comes from Focus Features, the indie film label under Universal Studios, which makes it a little easier to guess where and when its streaming home will be.