Record Intake
The European Film Academy has added a record 709 new members in its 2024 annual intake. New members include Cate Blanchett (Australia/U.K.), Jovan Marjanović (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Maria Bakalova (Bulgaria), Juraj Lerotić (Croatia), Anna Hints (Estonia), Ariane Toscan du Plantier (France), Stéphan Castang (France), David Thion (France), Marie-Ange Luciani (France), Latifa Saïd (France), Rebecca Houzel (France), Thomas Hakim (France), Sami Mustafa (France/Kosovo), Mohamed Siam (France), Hanna Bergholm (Finland), Hamze Bytyçi (Germany) and Christian M. Goldbeck (Germany).
The intake also includes Behrooz Karamizade (Germany), Jerry Hoffmann (Germany), Aylin Tezel (Germany), Jasmin Tabatabai (Germany), Sofia Exarchou (Greece), Phedon Papamichael (Greece), Kate McCullough (Ireland), Matteo Garrone (Italy), Enzo d’Alò (Italy), Francesco Montagner (Italy), Uljana Kim (Lithuania), Cindy Jansen (Netherlands), Fatih Rağbet (Netherlands), Cristi Puiu (Romania), Anca Puiu (Romania), Elene Naveriani (Switzerland), Selahattin Paşalı (Turkey), Molly Manning Walker (U.K.), Melanie Hoyes (U.K.), Lizzie Francke (U.K.), Charles Newland (UK), Jad Salfiti (U.
The European Film Academy has added a record 709 new members in its 2024 annual intake. New members include Cate Blanchett (Australia/U.K.), Jovan Marjanović (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Maria Bakalova (Bulgaria), Juraj Lerotić (Croatia), Anna Hints (Estonia), Ariane Toscan du Plantier (France), Stéphan Castang (France), David Thion (France), Marie-Ange Luciani (France), Latifa Saïd (France), Rebecca Houzel (France), Thomas Hakim (France), Sami Mustafa (France/Kosovo), Mohamed Siam (France), Hanna Bergholm (Finland), Hamze Bytyçi (Germany) and Christian M. Goldbeck (Germany).
The intake also includes Behrooz Karamizade (Germany), Jerry Hoffmann (Germany), Aylin Tezel (Germany), Jasmin Tabatabai (Germany), Sofia Exarchou (Greece), Phedon Papamichael (Greece), Kate McCullough (Ireland), Matteo Garrone (Italy), Enzo d’Alò (Italy), Francesco Montagner (Italy), Uljana Kim (Lithuania), Cindy Jansen (Netherlands), Fatih Rağbet (Netherlands), Cristi Puiu (Romania), Anca Puiu (Romania), Elene Naveriani (Switzerland), Selahattin Paşalı (Turkey), Molly Manning Walker (U.K.), Melanie Hoyes (U.K.), Lizzie Francke (U.K.), Charles Newland (UK), Jad Salfiti (U.
- 5/9/2024
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
The British Film Institute has revealed the list of TV, film, and animation companies that have won funding from its latest £3.3M ($4.2M) Global Screen Fund payout.
Thirty cash awards have been allocated this round, including seven new international co-productions and what the BFI has described as 23 UK screen content businesses. Financed through the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (Dcms), the latest batch of awards sees over £1.3 million allocated through the fund’s International Co-production strand and over £2 million allocated through the fund’s International Business Development strand.
The funding, awarded in the form of non-recoupable grants ranging between £50,000 and £150,000, is paid out over three years. This year, the International Co-production strand has, for the first time, supported collaborations with Hungary, Norway, and Spain. The funding will also support partnerships with Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Lithuania, New Zealand, Poland and Sweden. Check out the full list of awardees below.
Thirty cash awards have been allocated this round, including seven new international co-productions and what the BFI has described as 23 UK screen content businesses. Financed through the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (Dcms), the latest batch of awards sees over £1.3 million allocated through the fund’s International Co-production strand and over £2 million allocated through the fund’s International Business Development strand.
The funding, awarded in the form of non-recoupable grants ranging between £50,000 and £150,000, is paid out over three years. This year, the International Co-production strand has, for the first time, supported collaborations with Hungary, Norway, and Spain. The funding will also support partnerships with Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Lithuania, New Zealand, Poland and Sweden. Check out the full list of awardees below.
- 1/17/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Three titles received €500,000.
Ildikó Enyedi’s Silent Friend is among 29 projects to receive a share of €8.1m in Eurimages’ latest round of co-production funding.
The new feature from Hungarian filmmaker Enyedi, who won Berlin’s Golden Bear for On Body And Soul in 2017, is a co-production between Germany, France and Hungary, and received €500,000 – the largest amount awarded in this round of funding. The film focuses on an ancient tree in the Botanical Gardens of the university town of Marburg to explore the relationship between man and nature.
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Ildikó Enyedi’s Silent Friend is among 29 projects to receive a share of €8.1m in Eurimages’ latest round of co-production funding.
The new feature from Hungarian filmmaker Enyedi, who won Berlin’s Golden Bear for On Body And Soul in 2017, is a co-production between Germany, France and Hungary, and received €500,000 – the largest amount awarded in this round of funding. The film focuses on an ancient tree in the Botanical Gardens of the university town of Marburg to explore the relationship between man and nature.
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Two more titles received €500,000: The Captive...
- 11/27/2023
- by Orlando Parfitt
- ScreenDaily
Finnish director Marika Harjusaari makes her feature debut with the female-centered, 19th-century-set horror “The Mire,” which follows a woman who must use her mysterious powers to save a Finnish village from a malevolent spirit. The film will be presented this week as part of a showcase of upcoming Finnish titles at the Finnish Film Affair.
Written by Ilona Ahti, the screenwriter behind Alli Haapasalo’s 2022 Sundance Audience Award winner “Girl Picture,” and produced by Mika Ritalahti (Silva Mysterium Oy), also in Park City last year with Hanna Bergholm’s Midnight selection “Hatching,” “The Mire” centers on an outcast midwife who harbors a terrible secret: She leaves unwanted newborns in a nearby swamp.
After falling in love with a young priest, she tries to leave her dark past behind. But when a strange woodland spirit arrives in the village, causing a series of unexplained disappearances, Iiris must use a powerful force...
Written by Ilona Ahti, the screenwriter behind Alli Haapasalo’s 2022 Sundance Audience Award winner “Girl Picture,” and produced by Mika Ritalahti (Silva Mysterium Oy), also in Park City last year with Hanna Bergholm’s Midnight selection “Hatching,” “The Mire” centers on an outcast midwife who harbors a terrible secret: She leaves unwanted newborns in a nearby swamp.
After falling in love with a young priest, she tries to leave her dark past behind. But when a strange woodland spirit arrives in the village, causing a series of unexplained disappearances, Iiris must use a powerful force...
- 9/19/2023
- by Christopher Vourlias
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: In a world where the space for specialist and non English-language cinema is shrinking in cinemas, it’s encouraging to see that Tokyo-based Gaga Corporation is committed to bringing a diverse range of theatrical releases to Japanese audiences.
Launched in 1986, the company is one of Japan’s longest established buyers, releasing between 20-25 films a year, with its president and CEO Tom Yoda a familiar face on the international festival and markets circuit. The company is also an active producer of Japanese films, with recent titles including Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Monster, which is screening as a Special Presentation in Toronto, following its Best Screenplay award in Cannes.
As Japan was moving out of the pandemic, the company says it was pleased with the box office results for acquisitions such as Todd Field’s Tar, French filmmaker Claude Zidi Jr’s opera-themed Tenor and multiple Oscar winner Everything Everywhere All At Once,...
Launched in 1986, the company is one of Japan’s longest established buyers, releasing between 20-25 films a year, with its president and CEO Tom Yoda a familiar face on the international festival and markets circuit. The company is also an active producer of Japanese films, with recent titles including Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Monster, which is screening as a Special Presentation in Toronto, following its Best Screenplay award in Cannes.
As Japan was moving out of the pandemic, the company says it was pleased with the box office results for acquisitions such as Todd Field’s Tar, French filmmaker Claude Zidi Jr’s opera-themed Tenor and multiple Oscar winner Everything Everywhere All At Once,...
- 9/6/2023
- by Liz Shackleton
- Deadline Film + TV
FilmSharks has picked up world sales rights to Finnish children’s film “Snot & Splash: The Mystery of Disappearing Holes.”
“It was a bidding war. They got offers from everybody,” said FilmSharks CEO Guido Rud.
“Snot & Splash” (“Räkä ja Roiskis”) is produced by It’s Alive Films – founded by director Teemu Nikki and Jani Pösö – and set for distribution in its native Finland (Scanbox), Scandinavian sub distribution by Sweden (Folkets Bio) and Norway (Norsk Filmdistribusjon), and Italy in the spring (I Wonder Pictures).
Poland’s Orka and Post Control Helsinki are also on board.
“We are very proud to be working with one of the most creative of Finnish production companies. Most great scripts and ideas are coming from Finland right now. It’s one of the hottest creative hubs,” added Rud.
The deal was signed during the Locarno Film Festival, where the film premiered as part of Locarno Kids Screenings.
The...
“It was a bidding war. They got offers from everybody,” said FilmSharks CEO Guido Rud.
“Snot & Splash” (“Räkä ja Roiskis”) is produced by It’s Alive Films – founded by director Teemu Nikki and Jani Pösö – and set for distribution in its native Finland (Scanbox), Scandinavian sub distribution by Sweden (Folkets Bio) and Norway (Norsk Filmdistribusjon), and Italy in the spring (I Wonder Pictures).
Poland’s Orka and Post Control Helsinki are also on board.
“We are very proud to be working with one of the most creative of Finnish production companies. Most great scripts and ideas are coming from Finland right now. It’s one of the hottest creative hubs,” added Rud.
The deal was signed during the Locarno Film Festival, where the film premiered as part of Locarno Kids Screenings.
The...
- 8/7/2023
- by Marta Balaga
- Variety Film + TV
Hanna Bergholm and writer Ilja Rautsi reunite for dark horror fantasy about motherhood.
Goodfellas (formerly Wild Bunch International) has boarded sales for Nightborn, Hanna Bergholm’s follow-up to horror hit Hatching.
Nightborn is currently being financed and packaged for a 2024 shoot. Hatching screenwriter Ilja Rautsi is reunited with Bergholm to write the original script.
Daniel Kuitunen of Finland’s Komeetta (Maria’s Paradse) will produce. Co-producers on board include Noemie Devide from Goodfellas in France; and Alain de La Mata and Christopher Granier-Deferre for the UK’s BlueLight.
Nightborn – described as “a dark horror fantasy” – is set over one year...
Goodfellas (formerly Wild Bunch International) has boarded sales for Nightborn, Hanna Bergholm’s follow-up to horror hit Hatching.
Nightborn is currently being financed and packaged for a 2024 shoot. Hatching screenwriter Ilja Rautsi is reunited with Bergholm to write the original script.
Daniel Kuitunen of Finland’s Komeetta (Maria’s Paradse) will produce. Co-producers on board include Noemie Devide from Goodfellas in France; and Alain de La Mata and Christopher Granier-Deferre for the UK’s BlueLight.
Nightborn – described as “a dark horror fantasy” – is set over one year...
- 5/9/2023
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
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
- 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...
- 1/6/2023
- by Matthew Turner
- Nerdly
Humanity is going to hell in a handbasket. At least, that seems to be the rearview consensus on 2022: a year that saw some things get better, a lot of things get worse, and the consequential uncertainty further taking over politics and pop culture.
Anyone reading this list knows horror movies mean some kind of catharsis. But as worldwide trends get more dreadful year over year, the thematic link between “our trying times” and the satisfaction we get from nightmares playing out onscreen has become stronger and more apparent. Now, perhaps more than ever before, scary movie fans can acutely consider why some new terrors captivate and excite, while others don’t or can’t.
Take last year’s inexplicable cannibalism trend: “Bones and All,” “Fresh,” “Resurrection,” all great movies that make our list. But why did consuming flesh consume our interest? And why did that subject matter so often intersect with sex?...
Anyone reading this list knows horror movies mean some kind of catharsis. But as worldwide trends get more dreadful year over year, the thematic link between “our trying times” and the satisfaction we get from nightmares playing out onscreen has become stronger and more apparent. Now, perhaps more than ever before, scary movie fans can acutely consider why some new terrors captivate and excite, while others don’t or can’t.
Take last year’s inexplicable cannibalism trend: “Bones and All,” “Fresh,” “Resurrection,” all great movies that make our list. But why did consuming flesh consume our interest? And why did that subject matter so often intersect with sex?...
- 1/3/2023
- by Alison Foreman
- Indiewire
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
In Cinemas In The UK & Ireland 16 September Picturehouse Entertainment have released a cracking new clip from Hanna Bergholm’s striking debut feature film Hatching, which will be released in cinemas in the UK and Ireland on 16 September 2021. In the new clip, 12 year-old Tinja faces up to some home truths and welcomes …
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- 10/2/2022
- by Adrian Halen
- Horror News
Universal’s ‘Moonage Daydream’ and Sony’s ‘Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song’ both out.
Two modern music icons face off at UK-Ireland cinemas this weekend, with the release of David Bowie documentary Moonage Daydream and Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song.
Opening in 50 sites, most of which are Imax, Universal’s Moonage Daydream is a journey through Bowie’s creative and musical output. The film, which launched as an out-of-competition Midnight Screening in Cannes this May, is written, directed, edited and produced by US filmmaker Brett Morgen.
Moonage Daydream has the backing of the David Bowie estate...
Two modern music icons face off at UK-Ireland cinemas this weekend, with the release of David Bowie documentary Moonage Daydream and Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song.
Opening in 50 sites, most of which are Imax, Universal’s Moonage Daydream is a journey through Bowie’s creative and musical output. The film, which launched as an out-of-competition Midnight Screening in Cannes this May, is written, directed, edited and produced by US filmmaker Brett Morgen.
Moonage Daydream has the backing of the David Bowie estate...
- 9/16/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Hatching Will Be Released By Picturehouse Entertainment In Cinemas In The UK And Ireland On 16 September 2022 Stills And UK Productions Notes Available Here In Cinemas In The UK & Ireland 16 September Picturehouse Entertainment present Hanna Bergholm’s striking debut feature film Hatching, which will be released in cinemas in the UK and …
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- 9/14/2022
- by Adrian Halen
- Horror News
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
Finnish director Hanna Bergholm and screenwriter Ilja Rautsi discuss their bloody coming-of-age film about an angst-ridden pre-teen who nurtures an unhatched egg – with devastating consequences
‘I traced it back to a nightmare I had as a child,” says the Finnish screenwriter Ilja Rautsi. “There was an evil doppelganger of me that went around doing bad stuff and came to gloat at my window.” Rautsi is talking about the inspiration behind his first feature screenplay, Hatching, about a lonely 12-year-old girl who cares for a strange egg – out of which hatches a doppelganger.
Rautsi says he wrote the idea down in his notebook, where it remained until he met the director Hanna Bergholm at a networking event organised by the Finnish Film Foundation. Despite the fact that they had only five minutes to speak, Rautsi felt an instant creative connection: “I had an idea that she wanted to build these worlds that are fantastical,...
‘I traced it back to a nightmare I had as a child,” says the Finnish screenwriter Ilja Rautsi. “There was an evil doppelganger of me that went around doing bad stuff and came to gloat at my window.” Rautsi is talking about the inspiration behind his first feature screenplay, Hatching, about a lonely 12-year-old girl who cares for a strange egg – out of which hatches a doppelganger.
Rautsi says he wrote the idea down in his notebook, where it remained until he met the director Hanna Bergholm at a networking event organised by the Finnish Film Foundation. Despite the fact that they had only five minutes to speak, Rautsi felt an instant creative connection: “I had an idea that she wanted to build these worlds that are fantastical,...
- 9/1/2022
- by Nikki Baughan
- 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
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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
The UK and Ireland release of Hanna Bergholm's Hatching is coming this September. A new trailer and poster have been released to promote the theatrical run of a film our own Josh said is "a stunningly unique horror that draws as much from John Waters as it does from John Carpenter’s The Thing". Other than hiding that the film is a Finnish language film the array of visuals on display in this trailer are awesome. Check out the trailer and a selection of stills below the announcement. Picturehouse Entertainment have released the new trailer and poster for Hanna Bergholm’s striking debut feature film Hatching, which will be released in cinemas in the UK and Ireland on 16 September 2021. Hatching premiered at...
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- 7/21/2022
- Screen Anarchy
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.
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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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
‘Bodies Bodies Bodies’ played as a surprise film.
Jim Archer’s comedy Brian And Charles won the audience award at Sundance Film Festival: London on Sunday, June 12.
Archer was present to accept the award at Picturehouse Central, presented by Clare Binns, managing director at Picturehouse.
Brian And Charles is a comedy about a man who builds and befriends a robot. It is sold by Bankside Films, with Focus Features having acquired global rights following its Sundance premiere in January.
Brian And Charles director Jim Archer on why he hopes the UK is poised for a comedy film revival
The four-day...
Jim Archer’s comedy Brian And Charles won the audience award at Sundance Film Festival: London on Sunday, June 12.
Archer was present to accept the award at Picturehouse Central, presented by Clare Binns, managing director at Picturehouse.
Brian And Charles is a comedy about a man who builds and befriends a robot. It is sold by Bankside Films, with Focus Features having acquired global rights following its Sundance premiere in January.
Brian And Charles director Jim Archer on why he hopes the UK is poised for a comedy film revival
The four-day...
- 6/12/2022
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
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...
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...
- 5/23/2022
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
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
Sundance Institute and Picturehouse have announced additions to the 2022 Sundance Film Festival: London programme today.
Alongside the twelve feature films, two short film strands and industry events previously announced, the festival will also present a new podcast strand with live audiences, including Girls on Film and Evolution of Horror; a 25th-anniversary screening of Love Jones, a special screening of Danny Boyle’s Shallow Grave; and a screening of Janicza Bravo’s Lemon chosen by keynote speaker, producer Christine Vachon.
The Festival will open up the spirit of Sundance Film Festival to UK audiences by screening three films at upwards of 25 cinemas across the country. A Love Song, Free Chol Soo Lee and Good Luck To You, Leo Grande will screen alongside recorded Filmmaker Q&As during the festival dates of 9 to 12 June 2022.
For the first time ever, the festival will include an exciting programme of live podcast recordings within the line-up.
Alongside the twelve feature films, two short film strands and industry events previously announced, the festival will also present a new podcast strand with live audiences, including Girls on Film and Evolution of Horror; a 25th-anniversary screening of Love Jones, a special screening of Danny Boyle’s Shallow Grave; and a screening of Janicza Bravo’s Lemon chosen by keynote speaker, producer Christine Vachon.
The Festival will open up the spirit of Sundance Film Festival to UK audiences by screening three films at upwards of 25 cinemas across the country. A Love Song, Free Chol Soo Lee and Good Luck To You, Leo Grande will screen alongside recorded Filmmaker Q&As during the festival dates of 9 to 12 June 2022.
For the first time ever, the festival will include an exciting programme of live podcast recordings within the line-up.
- 5/16/2022
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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
Hello and Happy May, everyone! Now that a new month is officially underway, that means we have a new batch of digital and VOD releases headed to platforms in the coming weeks, and to help you plan accordingly, we have a rundown of what to expect in terms of horror and sci-fi digital debuts during May 2022.
Shudder has a lot of great new horror headed to its platform this month, as well as the 2022 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards on May 15th, and if you’re still not feeling comfortable heading into theaters just yet, you can even check out the new Firestarter adaptation on May 13th when it arrives on Peacock. Other films getting a digital and/or VOD release during May include Riley Stearns’ Dual, The Innocents, Monstrous featuring Christina Ricci, and Hanna Bergholm’s Hatching.
Happy Streaming!
Escape the Field (Lionsgate) - May 6th
The fear is inescapable and...
Shudder has a lot of great new horror headed to its platform this month, as well as the 2022 Fangoria Chainsaw Awards on May 15th, and if you’re still not feeling comfortable heading into theaters just yet, you can even check out the new Firestarter adaptation on May 13th when it arrives on Peacock. Other films getting a digital and/or VOD release during May include Riley Stearns’ Dual, The Innocents, Monstrous featuring Christina Ricci, and Hanna Bergholm’s Hatching.
Happy Streaming!
Escape the Field (Lionsgate) - May 6th
The fear is inescapable and...
- 5/2/2022
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
Vortex — which opened this weekend to a full house at NYC’s IFC Center — has an unusual star, Dario Argento. Here’s how the film’s helmer Gaspar Noe convinced the iconic Italian horror movie director into his first lead acting role.
“There were three reasons” he said yes, Noe told Deadline. “The first one, he said, because you are my friend and I like your movies.” [Noe has known Argento for 30 years and is friendly with his daughter, Asia Argento.] “The second and the third, because I told him that I would not given him any lines to learn. That he could improvise his dialogue. He could invent his character all by himself. I said, ‘I’ll just handle the camera and the editing. So you’ll direct your part, and I’ll direct my part.’” In fact, the screenplay he showed Argento was only ten pages long.
Vortex follows an elderly couple in crisis. Argento plays an author and movie...
“There were three reasons” he said yes, Noe told Deadline. “The first one, he said, because you are my friend and I like your movies.” [Noe has known Argento for 30 years and is friendly with his daughter, Asia Argento.] “The second and the third, because I told him that I would not given him any lines to learn. That he could improvise his dialogue. He could invent his character all by himself. I said, ‘I’ll just handle the camera and the editing. So you’ll direct your part, and I’ll direct my part.’” In fact, the screenplay he showed Argento was only ten pages long.
Vortex follows an elderly couple in crisis. Argento plays an author and movie...
- 5/1/2022
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
After the 2000s seemingly kickstarted a new wave of independent horror, the 2010s (and beyond) were an exceptional time for new and emerging, as well as established, filmmakers to leave their own mark on the landscape of genre storytelling. One of the most notable aspects, or even trends, that I noticed while doing research for this entire series of retrospectives is how out of all of the decades, it feels like the 2010s was one of the best times for female filmmakers to get the opportunity to take the helm in comparison to other decades. The 1980s had a handful of women directors working in independent horror, but during both the ’90s and ’00s, it felt like the industry as a whole had taken a few steps backwards in providing female filmmakers the opportunity to tell the stories they wanted to tell.
Thankfully, though, the door swung back open in...
Thankfully, though, the door swung back open in...
- 4/30/2022
- by Heather Wixson
- DailyDead
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
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 Egg & I: Bergholm Births Straightforward Tween Body Horror
Finland’s Hanna Bergholm makes a splash with her interesting, if ultimately one-note debut, Hatching, a metaphorical horror film borrowing folktale elements to provide a meaningful template examining familial and emotional dysfunction. At its core, Berholm’s film employs a phenomenal use of practical effects, and anyone with a soft spot for creepy creature features will enjoy this throwback to Cronenberg and Jan Svankmajer.
Although not nearly as layered a narrative as it could be, with events unspooling as expected once all the prime elements are introduced, scribe Ilja Rautsi’s sentiments about parent/child relationships, repressed personalities and the toxic superficiality of social media bolster significant empathy for a young protagonist consumed and disfigured by her internalized distress.…...
Finland’s Hanna Bergholm makes a splash with her interesting, if ultimately one-note debut, Hatching, a metaphorical horror film borrowing folktale elements to provide a meaningful template examining familial and emotional dysfunction. At its core, Berholm’s film employs a phenomenal use of practical effects, and anyone with a soft spot for creepy creature features will enjoy this throwback to Cronenberg and Jan Svankmajer.
Although not nearly as layered a narrative as it could be, with events unspooling as expected once all the prime elements are introduced, scribe Ilja Rautsi’s sentiments about parent/child relationships, repressed personalities and the toxic superficiality of social media bolster significant empathy for a young protagonist consumed and disfigured by her internalized distress.…...
- 4/27/2022
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Sundance Institute and Picturehouse have announced the programme of feature films, short films and panel discussions for the Sundance Film Festival: London 2022, taking place from 9 to 12 June at Picturehouse Central.
Presented in association with Adobe, the festival will present 12 feature films from the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, U.S.A., selected for London by the Sundance Institute programming team in collaboration with Picturehouse.
Opening on 9 June with the UK premiere of Sophie Hyde’s ‘Good Luck To You, Leo Grande’, the festival will close four days later on 12 June with the UK premiere screening of British filmmaker Jim Archer’s feature ‘Brian and Charles’, presented by Time Out. The feel-good comedy film stars British actor and comedian David Earl as Brian, a lonely and unlucky inventor who builds an artificial intelligence robot made from odds and ends, including an old washing machine.
The festival will feature an...
Presented in association with Adobe, the festival will present 12 feature films from the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, U.S.A., selected for London by the Sundance Institute programming team in collaboration with Picturehouse.
Opening on 9 June with the UK premiere of Sophie Hyde’s ‘Good Luck To You, Leo Grande’, the festival will close four days later on 12 June with the UK premiere screening of British filmmaker Jim Archer’s feature ‘Brian and Charles’, presented by Time Out. The feel-good comedy film stars British actor and comedian David Earl as Brian, a lonely and unlucky inventor who builds an artificial intelligence robot made from odds and ends, including an old washing machine.
The festival will feature an...
- 4/26/2022
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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
Festivals
The U.K. premiere of “Good Luck To You, Leo Grande,” directed by Sophie Hyde, will open this year’s Sundance London (June 9-12), with lead actors Emma Thompson and Daryl McCormack in attendance. The festival will close with the U.K. premiere screening of Jim Archer’s “Brian and Charles,” starring actor and comedian David Earl.
In all, the festival will host several features chosen from the larger U.S. Sundance Film Festival. These include Adamma Ebo’s “Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul”; Andrew Semans’ “Resurrection”; Max Walker-Silverman’s “A Love Song”; Lena Dunham’s “Sharp Stick”; Chloe Okuno’s “Watcher”; Sara Dosa’s “Fire of Love”; Ed Perkins’ “The Princess”; Joe Hunting’s “We Met in Virtual Reality”; Julie Ha and Eugene Yi’s “Free Chol Soo Lee”; and Hanna Bergholm’s “Hatching.”
This year, the festival will feature an equal number of male and female directors across features and shorts.
The U.K. premiere of “Good Luck To You, Leo Grande,” directed by Sophie Hyde, will open this year’s Sundance London (June 9-12), with lead actors Emma Thompson and Daryl McCormack in attendance. The festival will close with the U.K. premiere screening of Jim Archer’s “Brian and Charles,” starring actor and comedian David Earl.
In all, the festival will host several features chosen from the larger U.S. Sundance Film Festival. These include Adamma Ebo’s “Honk For Jesus. Save Your Soul”; Andrew Semans’ “Resurrection”; Max Walker-Silverman’s “A Love Song”; Lena Dunham’s “Sharp Stick”; Chloe Okuno’s “Watcher”; Sara Dosa’s “Fire of Love”; Ed Perkins’ “The Princess”; Joe Hunting’s “We Met in Virtual Reality”; Julie Ha and Eugene Yi’s “Free Chol Soo Lee”; and Hanna Bergholm’s “Hatching.”
This year, the festival will feature an equal number of male and female directors across features and shorts.
- 4/25/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
The line-up includes UK premieres of ‘Good Luck To You, Leo Grande’ and Lena Dunham’s ‘Sharp Stick’.
The UK premiere of Good Luck To You, Leo Grande will open the 2022 Sundance Film Festival: London, with lead actors Emma Thompson and Daryl McCormack both expected to attend.
The festival, which is running at Picturehouse Central from June 9-12, includes 12 feature films that premiered in January at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah, plus a surprise screening for a film that also bowed at this year’s festival.
Along with Good Luck To You, Leo Grande, titles selected for this year...
The UK premiere of Good Luck To You, Leo Grande will open the 2022 Sundance Film Festival: London, with lead actors Emma Thompson and Daryl McCormack both expected to attend.
The festival, which is running at Picturehouse Central from June 9-12, includes 12 feature films that premiered in January at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah, plus a surprise screening for a film that also bowed at this year’s festival.
Along with Good Luck To You, Leo Grande, titles selected for this year...
- 4/25/2022
- by Melissa Kasule
- ScreenDaily
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
Exclusive: Finnish filmmaker Hanna Bergholm, whose latest body-horror coming of age movie, Hatching, made its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, has inked with CAA.
The pic debuted in the fest’s midnight section to critical acclaim and will be released by IFC Midnight on April 29.
Bergholm previously directed the internationally-awarded short films Varjot and Gorilla, as well as the television drama series A Reetta Ja Ronja. Her latest short horror film, Puppet Master, screened at several international film festivals, including Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal, Fantastic Fest in Austin, and the MoMA Museum of Modern Art New York.
Bergholm graduated from the University of Art and Design Helsinki with a Master of Art in Film Directing.
The pic debuted in the fest’s midnight section to critical acclaim and will be released by IFC Midnight on April 29.
Bergholm previously directed the internationally-awarded short films Varjot and Gorilla, as well as the television drama series A Reetta Ja Ronja. Her latest short horror film, Puppet Master, screened at several international film festivals, including Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal, Fantastic Fest in Austin, and the MoMA Museum of Modern Art New York.
Bergholm graduated from the University of Art and Design Helsinki with a Master of Art in Film Directing.
- 2/22/2022
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
After a banner 2021 for high-end genre films, industry vets are hopeful that the fantastic can resurrect the corpse of pre-covid theatrical distribution.
As bolts of lightning reanimated the body of Frankenstein’s monster, Julia Ducournau’s “Titane,” which turned heads when it took the Palme d’Or at Cannes, and Sundance Grand Jury prize-winner “Nanny,” a supernatural tale from director Nikyatu Jusu, have revitalized the festival scene.
While “Nanny” may have been the jewel in the genre crown at Sundance, the influence that genre cinema held over 2022’s first major festival was wide-ranging and undeniable. Chloe Okuno’s psychological thriller “Watcher” impressed — segueing into several sales deals — as did Hanna Bergholm’s psycho-horror feature “Hatching,” sold by Wild Bunch and Charades-sold Spanish standout “Piggy,” the follow-up to Carlota Pereda’s 2019 Spanish Academy Award-winner “Cerdita.”
Among genre titles at Berlin this year are Dario Argento’s serial killer thriller “Dark Glasses” in the Berlinale Special section,...
As bolts of lightning reanimated the body of Frankenstein’s monster, Julia Ducournau’s “Titane,” which turned heads when it took the Palme d’Or at Cannes, and Sundance Grand Jury prize-winner “Nanny,” a supernatural tale from director Nikyatu Jusu, have revitalized the festival scene.
While “Nanny” may have been the jewel in the genre crown at Sundance, the influence that genre cinema held over 2022’s first major festival was wide-ranging and undeniable. Chloe Okuno’s psychological thriller “Watcher” impressed — segueing into several sales deals — as did Hanna Bergholm’s psycho-horror feature “Hatching,” sold by Wild Bunch and Charades-sold Spanish standout “Piggy,” the follow-up to Carlota Pereda’s 2019 Spanish Academy Award-winner “Cerdita.”
Among genre titles at Berlin this year are Dario Argento’s serial killer thriller “Dark Glasses” in the Berlinale Special section,...
- 2/13/2022
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
For such a small and lightly populated region, the Nordics have been delivering an impressive number of critical darlings from a wide range of filmmakers. Nordic features hit a milestone this year, with three Cannes prize-winning films, Valdimar Jóhannsson’s “Lamb,” Juho Kuosmanen’s “Compartment No. 6” and Joachim Trier’s “The Worst Person in the World,” along with Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s documentary “Flee,” among the 15 on the Oscar shortlist, with the last two getting multiple noms.
Sundance also hosted a record number of Nordic movies, such as Alli Haapasalo’s “Girl Picture,” which picked up the Audience Award in the World Dramatic section, while more pics are in the pipeline at the Berlinale.
For decades, Sweden, Denmark and, to a lesser extent, Norway, were considered the top purveyors of internationally successful movies with helmers including Lars von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg, Susanne Bier, Roy Andersson, Trier and Ruben Ostlund, taking...
Sundance also hosted a record number of Nordic movies, such as Alli Haapasalo’s “Girl Picture,” which picked up the Audience Award in the World Dramatic section, while more pics are in the pipeline at the Berlinale.
For decades, Sweden, Denmark and, to a lesser extent, Norway, were considered the top purveyors of internationally successful movies with helmers including Lars von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg, Susanne Bier, Roy Andersson, Trier and Ruben Ostlund, taking...
- 2/12/2022
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
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
by Cláudio Alves
Motherhood is a subject ripe for horrific extrapolation. Some might regard their offspring as hopeful mirrors, wishing them to be an improved reflection. Disappointment, when it unavoidably comes, is a spiky cruel monster. There are others for whom birthing a mirror is the worst possible fate, the child a magnifying glass of perceived faults. Moreover, the similarity can feel draining, a youthful leech sucking out its mother's lifeforce, a constant reminder of mortality. Hanna Bergholm's Hatching takes these perceptions of motherhood and mixes them with body horror, cranks them up to eleven, and ties everything up in a pink satin bow that reeks of vomit and discarded flesh…...
Motherhood is a subject ripe for horrific extrapolation. Some might regard their offspring as hopeful mirrors, wishing them to be an improved reflection. Disappointment, when it unavoidably comes, is a spiky cruel monster. There are others for whom birthing a mirror is the worst possible fate, the child a magnifying glass of perceived faults. Moreover, the similarity can feel draining, a youthful leech sucking out its mother's lifeforce, a constant reminder of mortality. Hanna Bergholm's Hatching takes these perceptions of motherhood and mixes them with body horror, cranks them up to eleven, and ties everything up in a pink satin bow that reeks of vomit and discarded flesh…...
- 1/27/2022
- by Cláudio Alves
- FilmExperience
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
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