Film Forum

Winner of the Golden Bear, 2025 Berlin International Film Festival. In this third installment of LOVE–SEX–DREAMS: THE OSLO TRILOGY, 17-year-old Johanne drifts and daydreams like any teenager, until one day her restlessness morphs into all-consuming passion for her charismatic French teacher, Johanna. From her vulnerable yet never maudlin inner monologue, to her frank confessions to her poet grandmother and over-curious mother, to nuanced, scenes of intimacy with Johanna, Haugerud paints a complex, endearing, and intoxicating portrait of youthful infatuation and self-discovery, laced with the lightest touch of moral inquiry.

Presented with support from The R.G. Rifkind Foundation Endowment for Queer Cinema

2025     110 MIN.     NORWAY     STRAND RELEASING
IN NORWEGIAN WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES

Trailer

Reviews

“It sweeps you up, assuredly and indeed dreamily… The film’s precise juxtapositions of sight and sound produce brilliant flashes of insight…and a cumulatively seductive, almost musical flow.”  
—Justin Chang, The New Yorker

“The light touch that Haugerud applies to hefty matters of the heart comes as no surprise in DREAMS … consistently surprising and elastic in its reach.”  
– Guy Lodge, Variety

“Haugerud’s SEX–LOVE–DREAMS trilogy — three overlapping words cleverly incorporated into the main title sequence — is an impressive achievement that’s admirable for the intricate layering of its themes and the overall lightness of touch. Savvy programmers and arthouse distributors should be lining up to play the three films as a package.”  
– David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter

“Elegantly styled, sensitively acted and crafted with keen intelligence.”  
– Jonathan Romney, Screen