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The Guardian - Culture: Film Edit Unfollow 'People don't want to deal with things that are happening right in front of them': the horror of Hatching by Nikki Baughan Sep 1, 2022 Finnish director Hanna Bergholm and screenwriter Ilya 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 Ilya 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, but also deal with real emotion.” So he offered her his one-line pitch. Continue reading... Continue Reading

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