DREAMS (2025)

DIRECTED BY DAG JOHAN HAUGERUD

Saturday 9/20 w/Director In-Person Q&A!

Part of LOVE–SEX–DREAMS: THE OSLO TRILOGY

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.

Haugerud’s delicate direction, paired with Cecilie Semec’s gauzy cinematography, builds a world that’s dreamlike but grounded. Knitwear is an unexpectedly titillating star. -Tara Brady, Irish Times

Haugerud’s writing is consistently surprising and elastic in its reach, as it picks out common insecurities and gaping ideological differences between three generations of women -- but reserves its most piercing compassion for the youngest of them. -Guy Lodge, Variety

For anyone with sharp recollections of the heady rush of first love and the obsessive fixation on one person to the exclusion of all else, Dreams will strike chords. -David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter