Saga’s (Seidi Haarla) blissful fantasies of motherhood are upended when her and her husband Jon’s (Rupert Grint) son turns out to be a bit more difficult than they were expecting in Hanna Bergholm’s sophomore feature, Nightborn. Following up on her 2022 Sundance selection, Hatching, Bergholm establishes herself as one of Europe’s most talented up and coming filmmakers with this duo about the unseen challenges of parenthood and the chaos they can bring. The baby crazy couple have decided to put their lives in the city behind them to move out to Saga’s grandmother’s cottage in the Finnish woods. Even in its current state, overtaken by the surrounding forest and barely held together by rotting wood, Saga is enamored. She sees the home she remembers from...
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