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Original name: Sex
English name: Sex
Year: 2024
Run time: 118 minutes
Language: Norwegian
Type (Colour/ Black & white): Colour
Country: Norway
Director: Dag Johan Haugerud
Producers: Yngve Sæther & Hege Hauff Hvattum
Cast: Jan Gunnar Røise, Thorbjørn Harr, Siri Forberg, Birgitte Larsen
Screenplay: Dag Johan Haugerud
Cinematographer: Cecilie Semec
Editor: Jans Christian Fodstad
Sound Designer: Gisle Tveito and Yvonne Stenberg
Music Composer: Peder Capjon Kjellsby
Costume Designer: Ida Toft
Production Designer: Tuva Holmebakk
Production Company: Motlys
World Sales: M-Appeal
Dag Johan Haugerud has established himself as one of Norway's most influential writers and directors, in addition to being a novelist. With I Belong (2012), he won Amanda for Best Film, Director, Screenplay and Female Supporting Role. The film also won the Film Critics Award and was Norway's candidate for the Nordic Council Film Award. With Beware of Children (2019), he won the Dragon Award for Best film and Actor at the Gothenburg Film Festival, the film won a record number of 9 Amanda's after the international premiere at Giornate Degli Autori. In addition, the film won the Film Critics Award and Nordic Council Film Prize.
Two men, both in heterosexual marriages, have an unexpected experience that challenges them to reconsider their understanding of sexuality, gender, and identity. One has a sexual encounter with another man, without considering it either as an expression of homosexuality or infidelity, and discusses it with his wife afterwards. The other finds himself in nocturnal dreams where he is seen as a woman, stirring confusion and leading him to question how much his personality is shaped by the gaze of others.
