PREVIEW: Hatching (15)

WHO’S IN IT?

Siiri Solalinna (film debut), Sophia Heikkilä (Dual), Jani Volanen (Forbidden Fruit), Reino Nordin (Young Gods), Oiva Ollila (film debut), Saija Lentonen (Non Profit), Ida Määttänen (film debut)

WHO’S BEHIND THE CAMERA?

Hanna Bergholm (film debut), director; Ilja Rautsi (film debut), writer; Mika Ritalahti (Diva of Finland), Nico Ritalahti (Thomas) and Nima Yousefi (Clara Sola), producers; Stein Berge Svendsen (Greetings from the North), composer; Jarkko T. Laine (The Novelist), cinematographer; Linda Jildmalm (Flocken), editor

WHAT’S IT ABOUT?

Tinja (Solalinna) is a 12-year-old gymnast whose image-obsessed mother (Heikkilä) runs a popular blog showcasing her family’s seemingly perfect life. One day, Tinja finds a strange bird egg in the woods, and brings it home to nurture until it cracks open. Inside is a strange creature that becomes Tinja’s closest friend, but also a nightmare that sends both her and her family into a terrifying state of affairs…

IN ONE SENTENCE, WHY SHOULD YOU BE EXCITED?

After winning audiences at Sundance, this Finnish body horror flick and social satire is bound to hatch into something worth of its future cult status.

WHEN’S IT OUT?

FRIDAY 16TH SEPTEMBER 2022

WHERE CAN I FIND IT?

IN CINEMAS NATIONWIDE

 

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