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Dreams (Sex Love)

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Love/Romance

Country / RegionNorway
Production Year2024
Running Time111min
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ColorColor

Program Note

Seventeen-year-old Johanne lives in Oslo, Norway, where she falls in love with Johanna, her French teacher and textile artist. While she learns to knit at her teacher’s home, Johanne’s romantic imagination and sexual curiosity intensify. She begins documenting her emotions and experiences, capturing the heated passion of first love in writing. When Johanne’s mother and poet grandmother discover her writing, they are initially concerned about the relationship between student and teacher, minor and adult. But soon, they recognize its literary potential and consider publication possibilities. The typical emotions of first love transform into a unique queer coming-of-age story through the intellectual and laid-back humor, refreshing dramaturgy, and the symbolic imagery woven throughout the film. This is the third installment of Dag Johan Haugerud’s ‘Sex, Love, Dream’ trilogy, winning the Golden Bear at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival. (LEE Juhyun)

Director

Dag JOHAN HAUGERUD

One of Norway’s most influential writers and directors, Dag Johan Haugerud made his feature debut with I Belong (2012), which earned him the Norwegian Film Critics Award and multiple Amanda Awards, including Best Film, Best Director, and Best Screenplay. Beware of Children (2019) won Best Nordic Film and Best Actor at Göteborg Film Festival, and made history by winning nine Amanda Awards, bringing Haugerud widespread recognition. His trilogy consists of Sex (2024), Love (2024), and Dreams (Sex Love) . The first installment, Sex, premiered in the Panorama section of the 2024 Berlin International Film Festival and won numerous awards including the Europa Cinemas Label for Best European Film, the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, and Nordic Council Film Prize. The second film, Love, premiered in the competition section of the Venice International Film Festival, while the final installment, Dreams (Sex Love) premiered in Competition at the 2025 Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Golden Bear, bringing the trilogy to its conclusion.

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