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Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Norwegian Berlinale Winner Dag Johan Haugerud Named Jury Head for Venice's Giornate Degli Autori
Norwegian director Dag Johan Haugerud, who won the Berlin Film Festival's Golden Bear earlier this year for Dreams, has been named the jury president for Giornate Degli Autori, the independent section within the Venice Film Festival promoted by the Italian filmmaker associations ANAC and 100autori. The decision marks a 'homecoming' of sorts for the filmmaker after Barn (Beware of Children), which had its world premiere in competition at the Giornate degli Autori in 2019, was Haugerud's international debut.'I'm thrilled and excited to be entrusted with the honorable assignment of presiding over this year's jury of Giornate degli Autori', said Haugerud. 'Giornate is close to my heart, with its passionate and selective programming, and the fact that it's cherry-picking only 10 films with special care for innovation, originality and independence.' He added: 'Art, literature and cinema are more important than ever, they represent an opportunity for both intellectual and political reflection and – if you're lucky – an expansion of the senses. In that way, cinema has the ability to make changes, both on an individual level and for society as a whole.'Said artistic director Gaia Furrer: 'Welcoming him back to Giornate six years after the memorable premiere of Beware of Children, we marvel at the evolution of a filmmaker whose Sex, Dreams, Love trilogy received recognition by winning a Golden Bear Award at the Berlinale. His cinema is timeless and yet profoundly of our time, rooted in a deep philosophical interest for everything that makes us human – our aspirations, vulnerability and shortcomings' More from The Hollywood Reporter June Squibb on Her Nonagenarian Career High: "A 70-Year-Old Will Say, 'I Want To Be You When I Grow Up!'" Cannes: Wes Anderson Teases His Next Film Cannes: Wes Brings The Whimsy in 'Phoenician Scheme' Press Conference Haugerud's distinctive style is one of tender complexity, which is the best answer to mending the frayed edges of the age we live in'. Best of The Hollywood Reporter 'The Goonies' Cast, Then and Now "A Nutless Monkey Could Do Your Job": From Abusive to Angst-Ridden, 16 Memorable Studio Exec Portrayals in Film and TV The 10 Best Baseball Movies of All Time, Ranked
New York Times
22-02-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
‘Dreams,' Film About Teen Infatuation, Takes Top Prize at Berlin International Film Festival
The Norwegian drama 'Dreams (Sex Love),' a tender, often funny film by the director Dag Johan Haugerud, won the top prize at this year's Berlin International Film Festival. Part of a trilogy about contemporary relationships in the Norwegian capital of Oslo, the understated feature follows the consequences of a high school student's obsession with her teacher and her decision to write about their relationship. The other two installments, 'Sex' and 'Love,' premiered last year at the Berlin and Venice film festivals. In his acceptance speech, Haugerud said the film was about the act of 'writing and reading.' He added that people should 'write more and read more, it expands your mind.' He also praised the film's young star, Ella Overbye, whose warm, finely calibrated performance carries much of the film. The American director Todd Haynes led this year's jury, which included the Chinese actress Fan Bingbing, the German filmmaker and actress Maria Schrader, and the Los Angeles Times film critic Amy Nicholson. The runner-up prize went to 'The Blue Trail,' a Brazilian film set in a society in which people above the age of 77 are sent to a 'colony.' It was one of the most praised titles in competition at the Berlinale, as the festival is known in Germany. 'The Message,' a film from Argentina about a girl who claims to communicate with animals, won the special jury prize. In his speech, the director Iván Fund said the award represented a 'counterweight' to the government's drastic cuts to the cultural sector under President Javier Milei. 'Cinema is under attack,' Fund said, but 'film cannot be undone.' Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
Yahoo
22-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Berlin: Fipresci International Film Critic Award Winners
Fipresci, the international film critics association, has announced its winners for the 2025 Berlin International Film Festival, with Norwegian filmmaker Dag Johan Haugerud's Drømmer (Dreams (Sex Love)) taking the top honor in the Competition section. The film, the concluding chapter of Haugerud's Sex, Love, Dreams trilogy on emotional and physical intimacy, follows 17-year-old Johanne (Ella Øverbye), who becomes infatuated with her new teacher, Johanna (Selome Emnetu). As Johanne navigates her romantic awakening, the lines between memory and fiction blur, culminating in a self-reflective literary account of first love. Infused with Haugerud's signature droll humor and sensitive observations, the film marks a shift in the trilogy's focus to queer first love. M-Appeal is handling world sales. More from The Hollywood Reporter Berlin: Dramas from Ireland, Belgium, Brazil, and the Philippines win Generation 14plus 'What Does That Nature Say to You' Review: Hong Sang-soo Is in Top Form With a Convivial Meet-the-Parents Occasion That Goes South Before Dessert Frédéric Hambalek on His Paranormal Parent Trap 'What Marielle Knows' In the newly introduced Perspectives competition, Slovenian director Urška Djukić was honored for her debut feature Kaj ti je deklica (Little Trouble Girls), a coming-of-age drama that follows the reserved Lucia (Jara Sofija Ostan) as she explores sexuality, friendship and the intersection of sin and desire. The film is being sold worldwide by Heretic. The Panorama prize went to Bajo las banderas, el sol (Under the Flags, the Sun), the feature documentary debut of Paraguayan filmmaker Juanjo Pereira. The film excavates lost audiovisual archives from Alfredo Stroessner's 35-year dictatorship, revealing how media was used to shape national identity and enforce authoritarian rule. Assembled from recovered propaganda films, newsreels and declassified documents, Pereira's work reconstructs a history long omitted from Paraguay's educational system. Cinephil is handling worldwide sales. Tatiana Fuentes Sadowski's La memoria de las mariposas (The Memory of Butterflies) won the Fipresci prize in the Forum section. Using grainy analog footage, the Peruvian documentary tells the forgotten story of two indigenous Peruvian boys forcibly taken to Europe, intertwining their history with that of Peru's during its brutal 35-year dictatorship. Miti Film produced the documentary together with Perpetua Cine and Oblaum Filmes. Best of The Hollywood Reporter The Best Anti-Fascist Films of All Time Dinosaurs, Zombies and More 'Wicked': The Most Anticipated Movies of 2025 From 'A Complete Unknown' to 'Selena' to 'Ray': 33 Notable Music Biopics
