Hatching
classified 15 S
Film
Please note: This was screened in Sept 2022
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.
Hatching is the terrifying debut feature from Hanna Bergholm, heralding in an exciting new voice in horror.