Hatching: Hanna Bergholm, Siiri Solalinna and Sophia Heikkilä on Their Coming-of-Age Horror Film

One of the many fantastic films to premiere at this year’s Sundance Film Festival was director Hanna Bergholm’s Finnish coming-of-age film, Hatching. If you haven’t seen the trailer, Hatching is about a young gymnast (Siiri Solalinna) that is always trying to please her image-obsessed mother, and what happens when she finds a mysterious egg in the woods. Spoiler alert: the egg hatches and what emerges becomes both her closest friend and a living nightmare. Hatching was written by Ilja Rautsi and also stars Jani Volanen, Saija Lentonen, and Sophia Heikkilä. Shortly after seeing the film, I spoke with Hanna Bergholm, Siiri Solalinna, and Sophia Heikkilä. They shared some great stories about making the film, how Bergholm used Google to find the best animatronic designer in the world (which led to her hiring Gustav Hoegen and his team known for films like Star Wars and Jurassic World), how the film is unlike anything you’ve seen before, the way Hatching talks about people’s unhealthy relationship