Dreams

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Dreams

In Theaters Fri Sep 12

1h 50m

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Johanne's intimate writings about her first love stir friction within her family, prompting her mother and grandmother to reexamine their own realities and dreams. Johanne falls in love for the first time, with her teacher. To preserve her feelings, she documents her emotions and experiences in writing. When her mother and grandmother read what she has written, they are initially shocked by its intimate content but soon see that it has literary potential. As they debate whether to publish it, Johanne navigates the gap between her romantic fantasy and reality, and all three women confront their differing views on love, sexuality, and self-discovery.

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Dag Johan Haugerud

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Ella Øverbye

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Selome Emnetu

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Anne Marit Jacobsen

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Ane Dahl Torp

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Andrine Saether

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Namrata Joshi

The New Indian Express

...despite being dangerously wordy the film never gets annoying. There’s a lightness of touch and lovely play of words which has you invested in the dissection of feelings on screen.

Jul 31, 2025

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Tara Brady

Irish Times

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.

Rated: 4/5

Jul 30, 2025

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David Rooney

The Hollywood Reporter

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.

Feb 22, 2025

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Joseph Fahim

BFI

Storytelling may have aided Johanne’s healing; it may have given her a powerful tool for self-affirmation, for reclaiming the narrative Johanna has never and may never acknowledge, but it couldn’t grant her closure.

Aug 16, 2025

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Hilary A White

Sunday Independent (Ireland)

The interplay between everyday society and the intimately personal is so lightly worn it could only be the work of a highly skilled storyteller and observer of the human condition.

Rated: 4/5

Aug 14, 2025

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Nick Hasted

The Arts Desk

Love and Sex complete the thematically interwoven sequence, which unpick assumptions about sexual identity with gentle irony.

Rated: 4/5

Aug 5, 2025

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Synopsis

Johanne's intimate writings about her first love stir friction within her family, prompting her mother and grandmother to reexamine their own realities and dreams. Johanne falls in love for the first time, with her teacher. To preserve her feelings, she documents her emotions and experiences in writing. When her mother and grandmother read what she has written, they are initially shocked by its intimate content but soon see that it has literary potential. As they debate whether to publish it, Johanne navigates the gap between her romantic fantasy and reality, and all three women confront their differing views on love, sexuality, and self-discovery.

Director: Dag Johan Haugerud
Screenwriter: Dag Johan Haugerud
Distributor: Strand Releasing
Production Co: Motlys
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Norwegian
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 12, 2025, Limited
Runtime: 1h 50m