The 75th anniversary edition of the Berlin Film Festival drew to a close with tonight’s awards ceremony, as the jury awarded the Golden Bear to Norwegian director Dag Johan Haugerud’s “Dreams (Sex Love),” the portrait of a teenage girl with a passionate imagination who pours her intense feelings toward a teacher into a transformative personal essay.
The award brings Haugerud full circle, after having premiered “Sex” — the first film in the trilogy — a year earlier in the Panorama section of the 2024 Berlin Film Festival. (“Love” screened in Venice between the two.)
“The film is called ‘Drømmer’ — it’s Norwegian for ‘dreams’ — and this
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