Our exclusive poster reveal for all three movies in Dag Johan Haugerud’s Oslo Stories Trilogy: Dreams Love Sex, which will be released in August.
Dag Johan Haugerud’s Oslo Stories Trilogy: Dreams Love Sex is getting a release date in August 2025, and all three movies will be screened as a collective in cinemas throughout the UK. In this exclusive poster reveal, we share the new gorgeous posters for all three movies, the release dates, the list of screenings, and all you need to know about the films!
Norwegian writer and director Dag Johan Haugerud, previously known for indie gems like Barn (2019) and I Belong (2012), shook the festival circuit when he brought Sex, the first film in the trilogy, to the Berlinale in 2024. The movie went on to be screened at various festivals, including the BFI London Film Festival where we interviewed Dag Johan Haugerud, who explained that all three films had already been made, as he wrote them and shot them all in a row.
In September 2024, Love had its World Premiere at the Venice Film Festival; a few weeks later, Dreams (Drømmer) premiered at Oslo’s Vega Scene, before winning the Golden Bear, FIPRESCI Prize, and Guild Film Prize in Berlin earlier this year. Now, Modern Films is releasing Dag Johan’s Trilogy in U.K. cinemas throughout August. Keep scrolling for the plot of the movies, the release dates and schedule, and the exclusive poster reveal for all three films!
The Oslo Stories Trilogy: Dreams Love Sex
Dreams, Love, and Sex are three films with different plots and characters, but that explore the same topics and all take place in contemporary Norway.
Dreams, which will be released on August 1st, is about a seventeen-year old girl named Johanne (Ella Øverbye) who one day decides to show her mother and grandmother her journal. In it, she has written some very intimate, detailed experiences, including meetings with a teacher with whom she has fallen in love. But did these experiences actually happen, or are they just a product of Johanne’s imagination? Does it even matter, when our protagonists’ emotions are real? And what should the two generations of women in Johanne’s family do about it? Dreams explores the family’s differing views on love, sexuality and identity, but it’s also a coming-of-age story for Johanne, looking at how lonely being a teenager can be and the journey we take to become who we are.
In Love, a doctor named Marianne (Andrea Bræin Hovig) and a gay nurse named Tor (Tayo Cittadella Jacobsen) meet on a ferry. Though they would seem to be very different from one another – the former is very practical and conventional in her approach to relationship, while the latter is on the ferry to have casual encounters with men – a conversation helps them realise that they might have more in common than they thought. Marianne starts to become intrigued with Tor’s spontaneity, wondering if she would enjoy experiencing that kind of intimacy too. Love, out on August 15th, explores different approaches to relationships, the role played by gender norms in society, and, ultimately, the very nature of love.
Sex, out on August 22nd, is about two nameless chimney sweepers who talk to one another about the bizarre things happening in their lives. One of them, Jan Gunnar Røise’s “Chimney Sweeper,” is happily married with a woman but has just had sex with a man just because the opportunity presented itself, and it was “sensational”. The other, Thorbjørn Harr’s “Supervisor,” keeps dreaming about a David Bowie/Anni-Frid Lyngstad from ABBA/God-like figure is staring at him as if [he were] a woman”. As new elements and characters are introduced, the film digs deeper and deeper into modern relationships, sexual identity, and the true meaning of love in an insightful and surprisingly funny way.
Release Date and Schedule of The Oslo Stories Trilogy: Dreams Love Sex
The U.K. theatrical release dates for Dreams, Love, and Sex are:
- Oslo Stories Trilogy: DREAMS – August 1, 2025
- Oslo Stories Trilogy: LOVE – August 15, 2025
- Oslo Stories Trilogy: SEX – August 22, 2025
As of today, the three movies will be screened at the following cinemas throughout the U.K.:
- Belfast – Queen’s Film Theatre
- Bradford – Bradford National Science & Media Museum
- Bristol – Watershed
- Chelsea – Cine Lumiere
- Dumfries – Robert Burns Centre Film Theatre
- Glasgow – Glasgow Film Theatre
- London – The Garden Cinema, Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), ArtHouse Crouch End, BFI Southbank
- Manchester – HOME
- Newcastle upon Tyne – Tyneside Cinema
- Totnes – Totnes Cinema
The list is currently being expanded, so keep an eye on Modern Films’ official site for more screenings.
Exclusive Poster Reveal for the Oslo Stories Trilogy: Dreams Love Sex
Below are the new posters for Dreams, Love, and Sex, and the quad poster for the Oslo Stories Trilogy! Click on the images for the hi-res versions.
Modern Films will release The Oslo Stories Trilogy: Dreams Love Sex in cinemas across the U.K. on August 1-15-22, 2025.
