Nightborn, the second feature from Finnish filmmaker Hanna Bergholm, debuts at this year’s Berlinale. Here’s a clip from the film.
The film’s synopsis reads: With dreams of starting a perfect family, Saga and her British husband Jon move to the isolated house where she spent much of her childhood, deep in the Finnish forest. But as soon as their baby is born, despite the reassurance of all around her, Saga knows there’s something terribly wrong with her son. As their marriage starts to crack, Jon struggles to support his wife, but only Saga suspects the terrible truth about her newborn.
The film stars Seidi Haarla, Rupert Grint, Pamela Tola, Pirkko Saisio, and Rebecca Lacey. Bergholm wrote the screenplay with Ilja Rautsi. It was produced by Daniel Kuitunen.
“Nightborn is a film about the first year of a baby’s life, exploring how a child can change a relationship in profound and unexpected ways,” Bergholm said in her author statement.
“The story really grew out of my own feelings and experiences as a mother: those complex, sometimes difficult emotions, and how challenging love for your child can be. Parenting is not always easy, and when a child isn’t quite what you expected – a happy, easy-going baby – you begin to question how to be a parent to them. I also felt that there aren’t enough stories exploring the messy, difficult, and sometimes ‘ugly’ side of parental love.”
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Check out the clip above.