Hatching
dir. Hanna Bergholm · 2022
Tinja, a 12-year-old gymnast, is caught in the suffocating grip of her mother’s relentless pursuit of perfection, a lifestyle vlogger whose image is everything. As Tinja grapples with her own fragility and the weight of expectations, a grotesque secret hatches in her bedroom, threatening to unravel the carefully curated facade of their family life. Watching this film is like stepping into a dark, twisted fairy tale where innocence collides with horror, leaving you breathless and unsettled.
Desperate to please her domineering, image-obsessed lifestyle vlogger mother, fragile 12-year-old gymnast Tinja finds herself between the hammer and the anvil. But nothing is ever good enough, and as Tinja struggles to hone her skills, slowly succumbing to the insufferable burden of expectations and perfection, an unexpected finding in the woods becomes the silent harbinger of violence. Now, the thing in Tinja's bedroom threatens the unsuspecting family's well-tended illusion and mum's fake picture-perfect reality. And to think that wide-eyed Tinja would do anything to impress her passive-aggressive mother. What has Tinja been hatching under everyone's noses?
