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
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
Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.
Belle (Mamoru Hosoda)
If a name can trigger nostalgia, don’t be surprised when the occasional sense of deja vu sets in while watching Belle, a dazzling near-future tech fantasia wrapped around a tale, yes, as old as time. Directed by Mamoru Hosoda and mostly set in a vast online world of sweeping musical numbers and weightless action sequences, it tells of Suzu, an awkward teenager (as if there were any other kind) who finds quick fame performing as the pop-singer Belle: her avatar on a hugely popular social media platform called U that looks like a sugary cocktail of Tik Tok and “The Oasis” from Spielberg’s Ready Player One. – Rory O. (full review)
Where to Stream: HBO Max
Blue Island...
Belle (Mamoru Hosoda)
If a name can trigger nostalgia, don’t be surprised when the occasional sense of deja vu sets in while watching Belle, a dazzling near-future tech fantasia wrapped around a tale, yes, as old as time. Directed by Mamoru Hosoda and mostly set in a vast online world of sweeping musical numbers and weightless action sequences, it tells of Suzu, an awkward teenager (as if there were any other kind) who finds quick fame performing as the pop-singer Belle: her avatar on a hugely popular social media platform called U that looks like a sugary cocktail of Tik Tok and “The Oasis” from Spielberg’s Ready Player One. – Rory O. (full review)
Where to Stream: HBO Max
Blue Island...
- 8/5/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
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
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
Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here.
Beanpole (Kantemir Balagov)
The horrors of war are often told through male-centric narratives. Heroes who go through hell on the battlefield, brothers who sacrifice everything for each other, soldiers who return home scarred for life etc., all of which we’ve seen put on the big screen time and again. But wars are of course collective nightmares, tears in the fabric of history that leave no one–men, women, children–unscathed. This is the premise of Russian writer–director Kantemir Balagov’s second feature Beanpole, a radical relationship drama that examines the trauma of war from a distinctly female perspective. – Zhuo-Ning Su (full review)
Where to Stream: Ovid.tv
Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes (Junta Yamaguchi)
The logistics behind Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes...
Beanpole (Kantemir Balagov)
The horrors of war are often told through male-centric narratives. Heroes who go through hell on the battlefield, brothers who sacrifice everything for each other, soldiers who return home scarred for life etc., all of which we’ve seen put on the big screen time and again. But wars are of course collective nightmares, tears in the fabric of history that leave no one–men, women, children–unscathed. This is the premise of Russian writer–director Kantemir Balagov’s second feature Beanpole, a radical relationship drama that examines the trauma of war from a distinctly female perspective. – Zhuo-Ning Su (full review)
Where to Stream: Ovid.tv
Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes (Junta Yamaguchi)
The logistics behind Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes...
- 5/20/2022
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
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
Five Movies To Watch When You’re Done With “Hatching”...
Five Movies To Watch When You’re Done With “Hatching”...
- 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
Studio brass wowed theater owners this week with Maverick: Top Gun, Avatar: The Way of Water and Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse among other tentpoles. But they were also clear at the just-wrapped CinemaCon that a reviving box office requires a wide breadth of content.
“If we narrow what we bring to theaters, our audience will get smaller,” said Jim Orr, head of domestic theatrical distribution for Universal Pictures. “We need an industry that creates and impacts culture every single weekend [with] personal stories, original ideas,” he said — a sentiment that echoed across the four-day confab in Las Vegas.
Universal, short on superheroes, got plenty of traction with Jurassic World Dominion, Minions: The Rise of Gru and Halloween Ends and films like She Said and Nope. Its specialty distributor, Focus Features, promised to win back elusive older demos with Downton Abbey: A New Era, and showcased a slate including Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris,...
“If we narrow what we bring to theaters, our audience will get smaller,” said Jim Orr, head of domestic theatrical distribution for Universal Pictures. “We need an industry that creates and impacts culture every single weekend [with] personal stories, original ideas,” he said — a sentiment that echoed across the four-day confab in Las Vegas.
Universal, short on superheroes, got plenty of traction with Jurassic World Dominion, Minions: The Rise of Gru and Halloween Ends and films like She Said and Nope. Its specialty distributor, Focus Features, promised to win back elusive older demos with Downton Abbey: A New Era, and showcased a slate including Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris,...
- 4/29/2022
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
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
“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
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
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
Chicago – The 2022 Sundance Film Festival heads into Day Seven, and offers online events as well as films (see below). Like last year, the festival is virtual/online, meaning anyone/anywhere with a ticket or a pass (link) can indulge in the film offerings and events throughout the festival, which runs until January 30th.
One of the highlight offerings is free to anyone, with no need for extra tickets or credentials. Beyond Film programming offers something for everyone … with filmmaker chats, meet-ups and a daily talk show with Festival Director Tabitha Jackson. Festivals stars and directors participating include Emma Thompson, Dakota Johnson, Amy Poehler and Eva Longoria Bastón. Click on Beyond Film for the archive and what is upcoming.
Palm Trees and Power Lines
Photo credit: Sundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival is an annual event organized by the Sundance Institute – an organization founded by actor Robert Redford in 1980 – and...
One of the highlight offerings is free to anyone, with no need for extra tickets or credentials. Beyond Film programming offers something for everyone … with filmmaker chats, meet-ups and a daily talk show with Festival Director Tabitha Jackson. Festivals stars and directors participating include Emma Thompson, Dakota Johnson, Amy Poehler and Eva Longoria Bastón. Click on Beyond Film for the archive and what is upcoming.
Palm Trees and Power Lines
Photo credit: Sundance Film Festival
The Sundance Film Festival is an annual event organized by the Sundance Institute – an organization founded by actor Robert Redford in 1980 – and...
- 1/26/2022
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
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 family at the center of Finnish director Hanna Bergholm’s unnerving, instantly memorable horror flick “Hatching,” on first blush, are their own kind of perfect. This quartet of influencers, who sell their idyllic homelife to their legion of followers, are led by a ruthlessly ambitious mother (Sophia Heikkilä), while her husband (Jani Volanen), an amiable oaf, chooses to ignore her worst tendencies.
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- 1/23/2022
- by Robert Daniels
- The Playlist
“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."
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- 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
IFC Midnight has acquired out of the Cannes Virtual Market the North American rights to “Hatching,” a body horror and psychological drama from Finnish director Hanna Bergholm, the distributor announced Monday.
“Hatching” is the debut film from Bergholm with a screenplay by Ilja Rautsi, and IFC Midnight will give the film its festival premiere in 2021.
The movie explores the themes of control and keeping up appearances, and it tells the story of 12-year-old gymnast Tinja who tries desperately to please her mother, a woman obsessed with presenting the image of a perfect family life to the world through her popular blog. Then, one night, Tinja finds a strange egg. She hides it, she keeps it warm. And when it hatches, what emerges is beyond belief.
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“Hatching” stars Siiri Solalinna, Sophia Heikkilä, Jani Volanen, Reino Nordin and Oiva Ollila.
“Hatching” is the debut film from Bergholm with a screenplay by Ilja Rautsi, and IFC Midnight will give the film its festival premiere in 2021.
The movie explores the themes of control and keeping up appearances, and it tells the story of 12-year-old gymnast Tinja who tries desperately to please her mother, a woman obsessed with presenting the image of a perfect family life to the world through her popular blog. Then, one night, Tinja finds a strange egg. She hides it, she keeps it warm. And when it hatches, what emerges is beyond belief.
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“Hatching” stars Siiri Solalinna, Sophia Heikkilä, Jani Volanen, Reino Nordin and Oiva Ollila.
- 6/22/2020
- by Brian Welk
- The Wrap
Hanna Bergholm’s feature directorial debut set to launch at major 2021 international festival.
In what is one of the first acquisitions of the virtual Cannes market, IFC Midnight has beaten out rival bids to acquire North American rights from Wild Bunch and CAA to Finnish coming-of-age body horror Hatching.
The distributor pounced after watching a promo and the deal closed late on Friday night (June 19). The plan is to launch Hanna Bergholm’s feature directorial debut at a major international festival in 2021.
Hatching is in post and centres on Tinja, a 12-year-old gymnast desperate to please her mother, a woman...
In what is one of the first acquisitions of the virtual Cannes market, IFC Midnight has beaten out rival bids to acquire North American rights from Wild Bunch and CAA to Finnish coming-of-age body horror Hatching.
The distributor pounced after watching a promo and the deal closed late on Friday night (June 19). The plan is to launch Hanna Bergholm’s feature directorial debut at a major international festival in 2021.
Hatching is in post and centres on Tinja, a 12-year-old gymnast desperate to please her mother, a woman...
- 6/22/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Eccho Rights, the Stockholm-based rights-management and sales company, has come on board political drama-thriller “Invisible Heroes” in the run-up to Natpe.
Inspired by true events, “Invisible Heroes” follows the remarkable exploits of a rookie Finnish diplomat, Tapani Brotherus, who risked everything he had to secretly help secure asylum in Europe for more than 2,000 Chilean citizens whose lives were under threat following General Pinochet’s military coup in 1973. The international diplomacy drama was written by the playwrights Tarja Kylma and Manuela Infante Guell.
Eccho Rights will handle international sales on the six-part series, which is produced by Kaiho Republic in Finland and Parox in Chile. “Invisible Heroes” was commissioned by the Finnish broadcasting company Yle, in association with Chilevision.
“This is an incredible story that will appeal to a wide international audience given its extraordinary subject matter that many will not have heard of before,” said Nicola Söderlund, managing partner at Eccho Rights.
Inspired by true events, “Invisible Heroes” follows the remarkable exploits of a rookie Finnish diplomat, Tapani Brotherus, who risked everything he had to secretly help secure asylum in Europe for more than 2,000 Chilean citizens whose lives were under threat following General Pinochet’s military coup in 1973. The international diplomacy drama was written by the playwrights Tarja Kylma and Manuela Infante Guell.
Eccho Rights will handle international sales on the six-part series, which is produced by Kaiho Republic in Finland and Parox in Chile. “Invisible Heroes” was commissioned by the Finnish broadcasting company Yle, in association with Chilevision.
“This is an incredible story that will appeal to a wide international audience given its extraordinary subject matter that many will not have heard of before,” said Nicola Söderlund, managing partner at Eccho Rights.
- 1/14/2019
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
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