When a young Viesturs Kairiss started to dream about becoming a filmmaker thirty-some-odd years ago, he knew his path wouldn’t be straightforward or easy. Before the fall of the Soviet Union, aspiring Latvian directors would have to travel to Moscow or St. Petersburg to enroll in venerable Soviet film schools. After independence, Kairiss was among the first class of graduates from the newly launched film studies program at the Latvian Academy of Culture, one of many ways in which the small Baltic republic attempted to assert its own identity after half a century of Soviet rule.
“We didn’t have any technique,” Kairiss admits of he and his film school peers, laughing. For his first feature film, “Leaving by the Way” (2001), he enlisted friends for below-the-line work and recruited actors from the local theater school. When the film bowed in the Crystal Globe competition at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival,...
“We didn’t have any technique,” Kairiss admits of he and his film school peers, laughing. For his first feature film, “Leaving by the Way” (2001), he enlisted friends for below-the-line work and recruited actors from the local theater school. When the film bowed in the Crystal Globe competition at the Karlovy Vary Film Festival,...
- 2/17/2023
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
To mark the release of Hatching on 16th January, we’ve been given 3 copies to give away on Blu-ray.
12-year-old gymnast, Tinja (Siiri Solalinna), is desperate to please her image-obsessed mother, whose popular blog presents their family’s idyllic existence as manicured suburban perfection. One day, after finding a wounded bird in the woods, Tinja brings its strange egg home, nestles it in her bed, and nurtures it until it hatches. The creature that emerges becomes her closest friend and a living nightmare, plunging Tinja beneath the impeccable veneer of her family and into a twisted reality that her mother refuses to see. Hatching is the terrifying debut feature from Hanna Bergholm, heralding in an exciting new voice in horror.
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12-year-old gymnast, Tinja (Siiri Solalinna), is desperate to please her image-obsessed mother, whose popular blog presents their family’s idyllic existence as manicured suburban perfection. One day, after finding a wounded bird in the woods, Tinja brings its strange egg home, nestles it in her bed, and nurtures it until it hatches. The creature that emerges becomes her closest friend and a living nightmare, plunging Tinja beneath the impeccable veneer of her family and into a twisted reality that her mother refuses to see. Hatching is the terrifying debut feature from Hanna Bergholm, heralding in an exciting new voice in horror.
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- 1/11/2023
- by Competitions
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Stars: Jani Volanen, Siiri Solalinna, Sophia Heikkilä, Saija Lentonen, Reino Nordin, Oiva Ollila | Written by Hanna Bergholm, Ilja Rautsi | Directed by Hanna Bergholm
A young girl secretly hatches a large bird-like creature in Hatching, a deliciously twisted coming-of-age horror from Finnish director Hanna Bergholm. Anchored by a terrific performance by young newcomer Siiri Solalinna, it’s an impressive directorial debut that suggests Bergholm could be a serious genre talent to watch.
Hatching begins with 12 year old Tinja (Solalinna) stretching her body in preparation for an upcoming try-out for her school gymnastics team. The driving force behind her efforts is immediately clear, as her pushy, overbearing mother (Sophia Heikkilä) records her every move for her video blog, “Lovely Everyday Life”, in which she shows off her perfect home and family.
When a bird accidentally enters the home and causes untold destruction, Tinja’s mother (who’s never named) reacts by snapping...
A young girl secretly hatches a large bird-like creature in Hatching, a deliciously twisted coming-of-age horror from Finnish director Hanna Bergholm. Anchored by a terrific performance by young newcomer Siiri Solalinna, it’s an impressive directorial debut that suggests Bergholm could be a serious genre talent to watch.
Hatching begins with 12 year old Tinja (Solalinna) stretching her body in preparation for an upcoming try-out for her school gymnastics team. The driving force behind her efforts is immediately clear, as her pushy, overbearing mother (Sophia Heikkilä) records her every move for her video blog, “Lovely Everyday Life”, in which she shows off her perfect home and family.
When a bird accidentally enters the home and causes untold destruction, Tinja’s mother (who’s never named) reacts by snapping...
- 1/6/2023
- by Matthew Turner
- Nerdly
2022 was an incredible year for horror films from across the world that deserve just as much attention as any domestic genre hit.
2022 has proven itself to be a banner year for horror and genre fans have never had more exciting and terrifying options at their disposal. Whether in the security of one’s own home or a dark movie theater, horror has been a comforting constant for audiences this year.
2022 hasn’t struggled when it comes to original horror blockbusters, with Nope, Barbarian, The Black Phone, Smile, Bodies Bodies Bodies, and Ti West’s X and Pearl being some of the year’s biggest releases. However, 2022 has had just as much to offer for sequel and franchise fans between Hellraiser, Prey, Scream, Terrifier 2, and Halloween Ends.
It’s easy for horror fans to get tunnel vision when it comes to mainstream movies, but some of the year’s scariest...
2022 has proven itself to be a banner year for horror and genre fans have never had more exciting and terrifying options at their disposal. Whether in the security of one’s own home or a dark movie theater, horror has been a comforting constant for audiences this year.
2022 hasn’t struggled when it comes to original horror blockbusters, with Nope, Barbarian, The Black Phone, Smile, Bodies Bodies Bodies, and Ti West’s X and Pearl being some of the year’s biggest releases. However, 2022 has had just as much to offer for sequel and franchise fans between Hellraiser, Prey, Scream, Terrifier 2, and Halloween Ends.
It’s easy for horror fans to get tunnel vision when it comes to mainstream movies, but some of the year’s scariest...
- 12/28/2022
- by Daniel Kurland
- bloody-disgusting.com
Repressed crises explode as a shy tweenager daughter’s nightmarish doppelganger emerges from mysterious ovum
Finnish writer-director Hanna Bergholm makes her feature debut with this bizarre and richly designed body-horror-satire about family dysfunction, body image and eating disorders. It’s a movie which borrows a bit from others – chiefly Spielberg’s Et – but there is something brashly distinctive here as well.
We start with an Instagrammably picture-perfect family of ineffable blondness. Tinja (Siiri Solalinna) is a shy tweenager who is a gymnastics competitor. Maybe there are films where gymnastics are not a metaphor for misery and self-harm but this isn’t one of them. Tinja has a cheery dad (Jani Volanen) who is a bit of a beta-male chump in his shorts and his sweater tied around his neck, and she has a brattish kid brother, Matias (OIva Ollila). But she is being driven super hard by her icily ambitious...
Finnish writer-director Hanna Bergholm makes her feature debut with this bizarre and richly designed body-horror-satire about family dysfunction, body image and eating disorders. It’s a movie which borrows a bit from others – chiefly Spielberg’s Et – but there is something brashly distinctive here as well.
We start with an Instagrammably picture-perfect family of ineffable blondness. Tinja (Siiri Solalinna) is a shy tweenager who is a gymnastics competitor. Maybe there are films where gymnastics are not a metaphor for misery and self-harm but this isn’t one of them. Tinja has a cheery dad (Jani Volanen) who is a bit of a beta-male chump in his shorts and his sweater tied around his neck, and she has a brattish kid brother, Matias (OIva Ollila). But she is being driven super hard by her icily ambitious...
- 9/14/2022
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Who wants to be disturbed? Picturehouse in the UK has revealed one more official UK trailer for the Finnish creature feature horror film Hatching, from filmmaker Hanna Bergholm. This first premiered at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival earlier this year and opened in US cinemas back in April. It's available to watch now on VOD in the US, only opening in the UK this September. Considering this creepy film with some gnarly practical FX work in it is definitely worth watching, we're posting this final trailer anyway. 12-year-old Tinja is desperate to please her mother, a woman obsessed with presenting the image of the perfect family. One night, Tinja finds a strange egg. She brings it home and nurtures it. What hatches is beyond belief... There definitely ain't a bird in there. Starring Siiri Solalinna, Sophia Heikkilä, Saija Lentonen, and Jani Volanen. It's described as "subversive, stomach-churning, and visionary, a body-horror...
- 7/22/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Picturehouse Entertainment has released the new trailer and poster for Hanna Bergholm’s debut feature film ‘Hatching.’ You can read our review of the film here.
In this darkly compelling fable, 12-year-old gymnast, Tinja (Siiri Solalinna), is desperate to please her image-obsessed mother, whose popular blog ‘Lovely Everyday Life’ presents their family’s idyllic existence as manicured suburban perfection. One day, after finding a wounded bird in the woods, Tinja brings its strange egg home, nestles it in her bed, and nurtures it until it hatches. The creature that emerges becomes her closest friend and a living nightmare, plunging Tinja beneath the impeccable veneer of her family and into a twisted reality that her mother refuses to see.
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The film will be released in cinemas in the UK and Ireland on 16 September.
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In this darkly compelling fable, 12-year-old gymnast, Tinja (Siiri Solalinna), is desperate to please her image-obsessed mother, whose popular blog ‘Lovely Everyday Life’ presents their family’s idyllic existence as manicured suburban perfection. One day, after finding a wounded bird in the woods, Tinja brings its strange egg home, nestles it in her bed, and nurtures it until it hatches. The creature that emerges becomes her closest friend and a living nightmare, plunging Tinja beneath the impeccable veneer of her family and into a twisted reality that her mother refuses to see.
Also in trailers – Full trailer drops for ‘House of the Dragon’
The film will be released in cinemas in the UK and Ireland on 16 September.
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- 7/21/2022
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Stars: Jani Volanen, Siiri Solalinna, Sophia Heikkilä, Saija Lentonen, Reino Nordin, Oiva Ollila | Written by Hanna Bergholm, Ilja Rautsi | Directed by Hanna Bergholm
A young girl secretly hatches a large bird-like creature in Hatching, a deliciously twisted coming-of-age horror from Finnish director Hanna Bergholm. Anchored by a terrific performance by young newcomer Siiri Solalinna, it’s an impressive directorial debut that suggests Bergholm could be a serious genre talent to watch.
Hatching begins with 12 year old Tinja (Solalinna) stretching her body in preparation for an upcoming try-out for her school gymnastics team. The driving force behind her efforts is immediately clear, as her pushy, overbearing mother (Sophia Heikkilä) records her every move for her video blog, “Lovely Everyday Life”, in which she shows off her perfect home and family.
When a bird accidentally enters the home and causes untold destruction, Tinja’s mother (who’s never named) reacts by snapping...
A young girl secretly hatches a large bird-like creature in Hatching, a deliciously twisted coming-of-age horror from Finnish director Hanna Bergholm. Anchored by a terrific performance by young newcomer Siiri Solalinna, it’s an impressive directorial debut that suggests Bergholm could be a serious genre talent to watch.
Hatching begins with 12 year old Tinja (Solalinna) stretching her body in preparation for an upcoming try-out for her school gymnastics team. The driving force behind her efforts is immediately clear, as her pushy, overbearing mother (Sophia Heikkilä) records her every move for her video blog, “Lovely Everyday Life”, in which she shows off her perfect home and family.
When a bird accidentally enters the home and causes untold destruction, Tinja’s mother (who’s never named) reacts by snapping...
- 6/24/2022
- by Matthew Turner
- Nerdly
Hello, everyone! It seems like there’s a constant supply of genre films coming out these days, which can make it hard to keep up with everything. Here’s a look at my thoughts on two recent indie projects, Hanna Bergholm’s Hatching and The Aviary from Jennifer Raite and Chris Cullari.
Enjoy!
The Hatching: As far as directorial debuts go, director Hanna Bergholm has done a phenomenal job of quickly establishing herself as one of the most intriguing new talents to watch in the genre space with Hatching. A harrowing exploration of the horrors and pressure that many (if not most) young folks experience throughout adolescence, screenwriter Ilja Rautsi does a great job of crafting a story that seamlessly meshes psychological horror with an unconventional creature feature, resulting in one of the most unique viewing experiences that I’ve had in 2022.
In Hatching, we’re introduced to young...
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The Hatching: As far as directorial debuts go, director Hanna Bergholm has done a phenomenal job of quickly establishing herself as one of the most intriguing new talents to watch in the genre space with Hatching. A harrowing exploration of the horrors and pressure that many (if not most) young folks experience throughout adolescence, screenwriter Ilja Rautsi does a great job of crafting a story that seamlessly meshes psychological horror with an unconventional creature feature, resulting in one of the most unique viewing experiences that I’ve had in 2022.
In Hatching, we’re introduced to young...
- 5/23/2022
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Hatching is a 2022 Finnish body horror film directed by Hanna Bergholm and written by Ilja Rautsi. The film stars Jani Volanen, Reino Nordin, Saija Lentonen, Siiri Solalinna and Sophia Heikkilä and follows the story of 12-year-old Tinja and her mother, who has set high expectations for her which pressures Tinja. One day, Tinja finds an egg and secretly takes care of it until it unexpectedly hatches into her doppelganger. The film won the Grand Prix and the Prix du Jury Jeunes at the Festival international du film fantastique de Gérardmer 2022. The film has received generally positive reviews so
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- 5/10/2022
- by A.E. Oats
- TVovermind.com
Hatching, the debut feature by Finnish director Hanna Bergholm, is a horror film that stands out for its creature feature and coming-of-age elements. The protagonist Tinja (Siiri Solalinna) is a teenager who lives with her mother (Sophia Heikkilä), her father (Jani Volanen) and her brother (Oiva Ollila). They all participate in the vlogs recorded by the mom, sharing their perfect life in the suburbs. A sequence at the beginning, when a black bird bursts into the family home causing havoc – it is caught and the mother breaks its neck mercilessly – shows a hint of the dark side that underlies a seemingly ideal family. Tinja practices gymnastics but her mother, an extremely strict and inconsiderate former figure skater, asks her to prioritize training above...
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- 5/3/2022
- Screen Anarchy
After designing animatronics for franchises like Star Wars and Jurassic World, Gustav Hoegen and his team scaled back and happily returned to traditional design and puppetry methods for Hanna Bergholm’s indie creature-feature Hatching–the first feature film Hoegen’s Biomimic Studio worked on from start to finish. 12-year old Tinja (Siiri Solalinna) nurses an egg she brought in from the woods—a welcome distraction from her helicopter mother (Sophia Heikkilä), who obsessively micromanages the family to maintain her perfect social media presence. Then the egg grows at least as large as Tinja and a slimy and straggly bird bursts fist first through the top […]
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- 4/29/2022
- by Aaron Hunt
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
After designing animatronics for franchises like Star Wars and Jurassic World, Gustav Hoegen and his team scaled back and happily returned to traditional design and puppetry methods for Hanna Bergholm’s indie creature-feature Hatching–the first feature film Hoegen’s Biomimic Studio worked on from start to finish. 12-year old Tinja (Siiri Solalinna) nurses an egg she brought in from the woods—a welcome distraction from her helicopter mother (Sophia Heikkilä), who obsessively micromanages the family to maintain her perfect social media presence. Then the egg grows at least as large as Tinja and a slimy and straggly bird bursts fist first through the top […]
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- 4/29/2022
- by Aaron Hunt
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Chicago – What came first, the girl or the egg? The new Finnish film “Hatching” – a Sundance Film Fest sensation – is both answering that question and getting a general release in the U.S. on April 29th, and is one of the most effective horror films of the year so far. Writer Ilja Rautsi collaborated with director Hanna Bergholm to create the story of a family who is experiencing their daughter’s adolescent emergence through a creature the girl has hatched from an egg.
Rating: 4.5/5.0
Tinja (Siiri Solanlinna) is a on-the-edge of adolescence gymnast in a family whose mother (Sophia Heikkilä) pretends through social media that they are perfect. That “perfection” includes a ruthless killing of a black bird that infiltrates their house, and Tinja’s retrieving of the bird corpse leads her to an egg she decides to hatch. A supernatural force melds Tinja’s psyche to the hatching, an...
Rating: 4.5/5.0
Tinja (Siiri Solanlinna) is a on-the-edge of adolescence gymnast in a family whose mother (Sophia Heikkilä) pretends through social media that they are perfect. That “perfection” includes a ruthless killing of a black bird that infiltrates their house, and Tinja’s retrieving of the bird corpse leads her to an egg she decides to hatch. A supernatural force melds Tinja’s psyche to the hatching, an...
- 4/29/2022
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
This Friday, April 29th, IFC Midnight is releasing Hanna Bergholm’s Hatching, a wildly ambitious creature feature centered around the horrors of adolescence, into theaters (it will make its debut on digital platforms on May 17th). In the film, a young girl named Tinja (Siiri Solalinna) decides to take care of a mysterious egg she finds one night, raising the twisted monstrosity in secret. Tinja’s best efforts to care for her new friend—whom she names Alli—prove to not be enough once the animal begins to wreak havoc on her life, leaving the young girl unable to contend with Alli’s increasingly dangerous behaviors.
Recently, Daily Dead had the opportunity to speak with Gustav Hoegen, the animatronic designer and creature FX supervisor behind Alli about his experiences working on Hatching and collaborating with Bergholm on the project. Hoegen discussed how he approached the creation of Alli, the challenges...
Recently, Daily Dead had the opportunity to speak with Gustav Hoegen, the animatronic designer and creature FX supervisor behind Alli about his experiences working on Hatching and collaborating with Bergholm on the project. Hoegen discussed how he approached the creation of Alli, the challenges...
- 4/28/2022
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
“Turning Red” presented a tear-jerking, Disney-friendly take on female puberty. Now it’s time to introduce its hideous, terrifying, ballsy cousin: the Finnish horror movie “Hatching.”
This debut feature from Hanna Bergholm, which originally premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, follows Tinja (Siiri Solalinna), a 12-year-old gymnast in a crushing culture of perfection, and Alli, the bird monster she unwittingly hatches from a backyard egg. It is subversive, stomach-churning and visionary, a body-horror film that doubles as a fable of femininity gone wrong.
The film opens on shots of Tinja doing gymnastics stretches in the living room spliced with birds-eye footage of her idyllic suburb. This slips into a montage for the family vlog Tinja’s mother (Sophia Heikkilä), manages, called “Lovely Everyday Life.” As the family poses contentedly on the couch, a crow careens into the house and smashes everything breakable in the living room. The matriarch...
This debut feature from Hanna Bergholm, which originally premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, follows Tinja (Siiri Solalinna), a 12-year-old gymnast in a crushing culture of perfection, and Alli, the bird monster she unwittingly hatches from a backyard egg. It is subversive, stomach-churning and visionary, a body-horror film that doubles as a fable of femininity gone wrong.
The film opens on shots of Tinja doing gymnastics stretches in the living room spliced with birds-eye footage of her idyllic suburb. This slips into a montage for the family vlog Tinja’s mother (Sophia Heikkilä), manages, called “Lovely Everyday Life.” As the family poses contentedly on the couch, a crow careens into the house and smashes everything breakable in the living room. The matriarch...
- 4/28/2022
- by Lena Wilson
- The Wrap
Hanna Bergholm, a Finnish filmmaker who makes her feature directing debut with the darkly funny and altogether disturbing “Hatching,” is the first to clarify: The egg wasn’t her idea, but what was inside it — and who actually hatches it — was.
“Hatching” follows Tjina (remarkable first-time actress Siiri Solalinna), a 12-year-old gymnast whose already complicated young life gets much weirder after she discovers an abandoned egg in the forest near her idyllic home. Feeling guilty — she’s fairly certain that its mother was offed by Tjina’s own maniacal mom — she takes the egg home. She cuddles it close. It grows. And grows some more, until Tjina hatches…a bird? a girl? both?
In Ilja Rautsi’s original screenplay, the protagonist was a teenage boy. “[Ilja] said that he has this idea that a boy hatches a doppelganger out of an egg, and I just thought that sentence was so interesting,...
“Hatching” follows Tjina (remarkable first-time actress Siiri Solalinna), a 12-year-old gymnast whose already complicated young life gets much weirder after she discovers an abandoned egg in the forest near her idyllic home. Feeling guilty — she’s fairly certain that its mother was offed by Tjina’s own maniacal mom — she takes the egg home. She cuddles it close. It grows. And grows some more, until Tjina hatches…a bird? a girl? both?
In Ilja Rautsi’s original screenplay, the protagonist was a teenage boy. “[Ilja] said that he has this idea that a boy hatches a doppelganger out of an egg, and I just thought that sentence was so interesting,...
- 4/28/2022
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
The image of a seemingly perfect family shows its cracks in director Hanna Bergholm‘s Hatching. The film follows Tinja (Siiri Solalinna), a 12-year-old aspiring gymnast desperate to maintain her Mother’s (Sophia Heikkilä) tireless demands of perfection and poise. The pressures morph into something otherworldly and dangerous when Tinja finds a strange egg in the woods and decides […]
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- 4/25/2022
- by Meagan Navarro
- bloody-disgusting.com
Hanna Bergholm’s modern horror fairy tale Hatching is on the way from IFC Midnight, opening in theaters on April 29 ahead of a Digital/VOD release on May 17, 2022. Check out the official poster below, and read Meagan’s review here. In Hatching, “12-year-old gymnast, Tinja (Siiri Solalinna), is desperate to please her image-obsessed mother, whose popular […]
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- 3/21/2022
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
During the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, Finnish director Hannah Bergholm celebrated the premiere of her debut feature film, Hatching, which will also be released in theaters and on VOD on April 29th courtesy of IFC Midnight. Hatching features Siiri Solalinna as a young girl struggling to live up to her mother’s (played by Sophia Heikkilä) extremely high standards. And as the teen discovers an abandoned egg, she decides to nurture it to fruition, but the creature inside isn’t exactly what she expects, and she embarks on a dark journey that leaves her frantically dealing with the nightmarish consequences of what she has wrought.
Recently, Daily Dead had the opportunity to speak with Hannah Bergholm as well as with Hatching co-stars Sophia Heikkilä and Siiri Solalinna about their experiences collaborating together, infusing the vividly impeccable world of these characters with touches of pure horror, and how they approached their characters as well.
Recently, Daily Dead had the opportunity to speak with Hannah Bergholm as well as with Hatching co-stars Sophia Heikkilä and Siiri Solalinna about their experiences collaborating together, infusing the vividly impeccable world of these characters with touches of pure horror, and how they approached their characters as well.
- 2/3/2022
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Buzzy horror drama is the debut feature of Finnish filmmaker Hanna Bergholm
Paris-based Wild Bunch International (Wbi) has unveiled a raft of sales for Finnish director Hanna Bergholm’s horror drama Hatching, following its buzzy world premiere in Sundance’s Midnight section.
The debut feature stars newcomer Siiri Solalinna as a pressured, young gymnast who finds comfort in caring for a strange egg that then hatches into an unexpected nightmare.
Hatching has also just won the Grand Prize and youth jury prize at the Gérardmer International Fantastic Film Festival in France (January 26-30), where other winners included Kate Dolan’s...
Paris-based Wild Bunch International (Wbi) has unveiled a raft of sales for Finnish director Hanna Bergholm’s horror drama Hatching, following its buzzy world premiere in Sundance’s Midnight section.
The debut feature stars newcomer Siiri Solalinna as a pressured, young gymnast who finds comfort in caring for a strange egg that then hatches into an unexpected nightmare.
Hatching has also just won the Grand Prize and youth jury prize at the Gérardmer International Fantastic Film Festival in France (January 26-30), where other winners included Kate Dolan’s...
- 2/1/2022
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Most people around the world would fail spectacularly if asked to list five Finnish films on the spot. It is a country whose film industry tends too often to get overshadowed by that of its neighbors. To the west, there’s Sweden, a country that gave us Ingar Bergman, Let The Right One In and all those Stieg Larsson Girl with the Never-Ending Sequels films. To the south, we have Poland, a country that gave us not only Janusz Kamiński, but also Krzysztof Kieślowski, a director whose Three Colours trilogy are a rite of passage for prospective film students all over the world. It’s hard to stand out in a crowd when you’re being overlooked by your Scandinavian neighbors. However, sometimes a film comes out that is so interesting and so gripping, that it just refuses to be ignored. Case in point, the 2022 adventure-horror film Hatching.
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- 1/25/2022
- by Ty Cooper
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Mother (Sophia Heikkilä) has the perfect family. The kind of family who would no doubt have made Adolf Hitler shed a single, wistful tear. It’s because of this that Mother makes a living placing her family’s unblemished, Aryan faces in front of a selfie camera and documenting their lives for all the world to see. In their crisp, pastel pink-and-white garments that they flounce around within the walls of their toy dollhouse home—the latter of which the camera establishes by floating around the exterior to mimic drone shots Mother uses in her family vlogs—the nuclear family at the center of Finnish director Hanna Bergholm’s rattling feature debut Hatching projects an image of unattainable attainability. It’s the same sort that modern-day vloggers and influencers profit from in real life. Smiling faces, tousled hair, audience-acceptable kisses and hugs, restrained displays of affection. The kind of family...
- 1/23/2022
- by Brianna Zigler
- The Film Stage
First time feature director Hanna Bergholm goes for broke in Hatching, a standout film in this year’s Sundance Midnight lineup. With a solid selection of thrillers and straight forward horrors, Hatching is definitely a contender for the weirdest film at the festival this year. Planned pastel perfection, a big ass egg, and a gruesomely adorable monster bird-thing are just a few of the reasons to keep this film on your watch list, as there is unlikely to be anything else like it this year. Young Tinja (Siiri Solalinna) lives a perfect life. An immaculately maintained home, a doting father, a loving brother, and most of all, a perfect, beautiful mother. Or so Mother (Sophia Heikkilä) would have the world think. A budding lifestyle influencer, never...
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- 1/23/2022
- Screen Anarchy
Motherhood is scary stuff. From “Rosemary’s Baby” through to “The Babadook” and “Hereditary,” a certain breed of horror film has taught us as much. Equally disturbing, in Hanna Bergholm’s inventive, alarmingly sunny genre outing “Hatching,” is adolescence: lurking under a protective mother’s wings, waiting to crack and come of age in a Finnish suburb’s suffocating, expertly calibrated atmosphere.
But “Hatching” is no blood-soaked “Carrie.” One could instead think of it as the weird lovechild of “American Beauty” and a grotesque version of “E.T.,” with the uncanny touch of Yorgos Lanthimos. Even this comparison feels incomplete in defining Bergholm’s directorial debut, a wicked foray into youthful anxieties that is admitted short on genuine scares, but full of delicious squirms and cringes through Bergholm’s skillful play with body horror and doppelgänger tropes — the same spirit that gave us both Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
But “Hatching” is no blood-soaked “Carrie.” One could instead think of it as the weird lovechild of “American Beauty” and a grotesque version of “E.T.,” with the uncanny touch of Yorgos Lanthimos. Even this comparison feels incomplete in defining Bergholm’s directorial debut, a wicked foray into youthful anxieties that is admitted short on genuine scares, but full of delicious squirms and cringes through Bergholm’s skillful play with body horror and doppelgänger tropes — the same spirit that gave us both Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
- 1/23/2022
- by Tomris Laffly
- Variety Film + TV
The Finnish writer-director is a talent to watch.
Hanna Bergholm grew up thinking there were monsters under her bed. Now she has brought one of them to life in her debut feature Hatching, which has its world premiere at Sundance Midnight on January 22.
Wild Bunch has already sold the buzzy film to 40 territories including including IFC Midnight for the US.
Bergholm describes Hatching as “a dark fable for grown-ups” and “a horror drama” with a dash of body horror. “I’ve always been fascinated in telling stories about our fears. I’ve always been afraid of horror films but maybe...
Hanna Bergholm grew up thinking there were monsters under her bed. Now she has brought one of them to life in her debut feature Hatching, which has its world premiere at Sundance Midnight on January 22.
Wild Bunch has already sold the buzzy film to 40 territories including including IFC Midnight for the US.
Bergholm describes Hatching as “a dark fable for grown-ups” and “a horror drama” with a dash of body horror. “I’ve always been fascinated in telling stories about our fears. I’ve always been afraid of horror films but maybe...
- 1/22/2022
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
“Hatching,” a Finnish horror movie premiering at Sundance, has two monsters at the center of its story: a grotesque bird creature and a pushy gymnastics mom.
Helmed by Hanna Bergholm in her feature directorial debut, “Hatching” follows 12-year-old gymnast Tinja (Siiri Solalinna) as she struggles to live up to the high expectations of her mother (Sophia Heikkilä) — oh, and she discovers a mysterious bird egg and secretly cares for it in her room. Over time, the egg grows larger until it hatches a disturbing, bird-like monster whom Tinja affectionately names Alli. Tinja keeps the creature hidden from her family, and the two soon grow a close bond as Alli senses the pressure Tinja is under, though the feathered freak of nature meanwhile develops a taste for blood.
“[Tinja] has hatched into the egg all her sorrow and fear of her mother seeing her unable to be a perfect gymnast,” Bergholm explained...
Helmed by Hanna Bergholm in her feature directorial debut, “Hatching” follows 12-year-old gymnast Tinja (Siiri Solalinna) as she struggles to live up to the high expectations of her mother (Sophia Heikkilä) — oh, and she discovers a mysterious bird egg and secretly cares for it in her room. Over time, the egg grows larger until it hatches a disturbing, bird-like monster whom Tinja affectionately names Alli. Tinja keeps the creature hidden from her family, and the two soon grow a close bond as Alli senses the pressure Tinja is under, though the feathered freak of nature meanwhile develops a taste for blood.
“[Tinja] has hatched into the egg all her sorrow and fear of her mother seeing her unable to be a perfect gymnast,” Bergholm explained...
- 1/21/2022
- by Jordan Moreau
- Variety Film + TV
Ahead of its virtual world premiere as part of the Midnight lineup at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, the official trailer for Hatching has been revealed!
Below, you can witness the birth of an otherworldly creature in the official trailer for Hatching, which will have its virtual premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 22nd at 11:55pm Mt before IFC Midnight releases it theatrically and on Digital/VOD on April 29th.
Directed by Hanna Bergholm from a screenplay by Ilja Rautsi, Hatching stars Siiri Solalinna, Sophia Heikkilä, Saija Lentonen, and Jani Volanen.
"12-year-old Tinja is desperate to please her mother, a woman obsessed with presenting the image of a perfect family. One night, Tinja finds a strange egg. What hatches is beyond belief."
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Below, you can witness the birth of an otherworldly creature in the official trailer for Hatching, which will have its virtual premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on January 22nd at 11:55pm Mt before IFC Midnight releases it theatrically and on Digital/VOD on April 29th.
Directed by Hanna Bergholm from a screenplay by Ilja Rautsi, Hatching stars Siiri Solalinna, Sophia Heikkilä, Saija Lentonen, and Jani Volanen.
"12-year-old Tinja is desperate to please her mother, a woman obsessed with presenting the image of a perfect family. One night, Tinja finds a strange egg. What hatches is beyond belief."
The post Watch the Trailer for Hanna Bergholm’s Hatching Ahead of its Virtual Premiere at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival appeared first on Daily Dead.
- 1/13/2022
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Hatching Trailer — Hanna Bergholm‘s Hatching (2022) movie trailer has been released by IFC Films. The Hatching trailer stars Siiri Solalinna, Sophia Heikkilä, Saija Lentonen, and Jani Volanen. Crew Ilja Rautsi wrote the screenplay for Hatching. Stein Berge Svendsen created the music for the film. Jarkko T. Laine crafted the cinematography for the film. Hatching Poster Hatching Movie [...]
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- 1/12/2022
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
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