---
name: "Hanna Bergholm"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/hanna-bergholm"
fi1m_id: "hanna-bergholm"
imdb_id: "nm1028093"
tmdb_id: 2020204
wikidata_id: "Q110983658"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "1 January 1980"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "director"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-04T04:34:35.866653+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Hanna Bergholm

## Identity

Hanna Bergholm

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/hanna-bergholm
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** hanna-bergholm
- **IMDb ID:** nm1028093
- **TMDB ID:** 2020204
- **Wikidata ID:** Q110983658
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanna_Bergholm, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110983658, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1028093/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2020204

Director. Born 1 January 1980 in Helsinki.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 1 January 1980, Helsinki
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanna_Bergholm, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q110983658, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1028093/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2020204

## Streaming the US now

- **AMC+:** [*Nightborn*](https://film.one/film/nightborn.md) (62)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Hanna Bergholm is a Finnish film director and screenwriter. She graduated in 2009 from the University of Art and Design Helsinki with an MA in Film Directing and was selected for the Berlinale Talent Campus in 2012.

Bergholm is best known for her debut feature *Hatching* (2022), a psychological horror film that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and her second feature *Nightborn* (2026), which she directed and co-wrote. The latter, her first English-language film, premiered in competition at the 76th Berlin International Film Festival.

Earlier in her career she directed several internationally screened short films, including *Puppet Master* (2018), *Varjot* and *Gorilla*, as well as the children's television series *Reetta ja Ronja*. She is a member of the European Film Academy.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, cineuropa.org, variety.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Nightborn* (2026), Fi1m 62, Director, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/nightborn.md)

## Complete filmography (11)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Nightborn* (2026), Writer, Director — Fi1m 62, [page](https://film.one/film/nightborn.md)
- *Hatching* (2022), Story, Director
- *Helsinki Crimes* (2022), series, Director, Casting
- *Puppet Master* (2018), Director, Writer, Producer, Editor
- *Gorilla* (2009), Director
- *Varjot* (2009), Director
- *Black Ice* (2007), as Tyttö ovella · Second Assistant Director
- *Rikospoliisi ei laula* (2006), series, as CIA:n agentti
- *Mun Lappi* (2005), Director
- *Reflexions* (2005), Director
- *Reetta and Ronja Go Treasure Hunting* (2005), Director, Writer, Editor

## Gallery

- ![Hanna Bergholm at Berlin Film Festival 2026](https://film.one/media/person/5530348/gallery-e832866da9fa.jpg) Hanna Bergholm at Berlin Film Festival 2026 — User:Celestinesucess, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Hanna_Bergholm_at_Berlin_Film_Festival_2026%2C_%28P1230679%29.jpg/1280px-Hanna_Bergholm_at_Berlin_Film_Festival_2026%2C_%28P1230679%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Hanna Bergholm at Berlin Film Festival 2026](https://film.one/media/person/5530348/gallery-a6dda00a2e36.jpg) Hanna Bergholm at Berlin Film Festival 2026 — User:Celestinesucess, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Hanna_Bergholm_at_Berlin_Film_Festival_2026%2C_%28P1230682%29.jpg/1280px-Hanna_Bergholm_at_Berlin_Film_Festival_2026%2C_%28P1230682%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Hanna Bergholm](https://film.one/media/person/5530348/gallery-0fe8e6181eb2.jpg) Hanna Bergholm — User:Celestinesucess, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/Hanna_Bergholm_at_Berlin_Film_Festival_2026%2C_%28P1230738%29.jpg/1280px-Hanna_Bergholm_at_Berlin_Film_Festival_2026%2C_%28P1230738%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Hanna Bergholm at Berlin Film Festival 2026](https://film.one/media/person/5530348/gallery-46f6397ba786.jpg) Hanna Bergholm at Berlin Film Festival 2026 — User:Celestinesucess, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/44/Hanna_Bergholm_at_Berlin_Film_Festival_2026%2C_%28P1230785%29.jpg/1280px-Hanna_Bergholm_at_Berlin_Film_Festival_2026%2C_%28P1230785%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Hanna Bergholm](https://film.one/media/person/5530348/gallery-c55fec41922a.jpg) Hanna Bergholm — Image via TMDB
- ![Hanna Bergholm at Berlin Film Festival 2026](https://film.one/media/person/5530348/gallery-38aa16792d4d.jpg) Hanna Bergholm at Berlin Film Festival 2026 — User:Celestinesucess, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Hanna_Bergholm_at_Berlin_Film_Festival_2026%2C_%28P1230686%29.jpg/1280px-Hanna_Bergholm_at_Berlin_Film_Festival_2026%2C_%28P1230686%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)
- ![Hanna Bergholm présentant son film "Ego" au cinéma Espace Lac, lors du festival de Gérardmer, le 30 janvier 2022.](https://film.one/media/person/5530348/gallery-184f9933f626.jpg) Hanna Bergholm présentant son film "Ego" au cinéma Espace Lac, lors du festival de Gérardmer, le 30 janvier 2022. — ManoSolo13241324, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Hanna_Bergholm_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Hanna_Bergholm_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail)

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Sitges Film Festival best special effects award 2022: Sitges Film Festival best special effects award (won), for *Hatching*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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