Retrospektif: Dag Johan Haugerud

I BELONG
SOM DU SER MEG

• Director: Dag Johan Haugerud
• NORWAY / 2012 / DCP / Colour / 118’ / Norwegian; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Dag Johan Haugerud
• Director of Photography: Kim Hiorthøy
• Editing: Jens Christian Fodstad
• Music: Peder Kjellsby
• Cast: Andrine Sæther, Jan Gunnar Røise, Laila Goody, Henriette Steenstrup, Ragnhild Hilt, Trine Wiggen
• Producer: Yngve Sæther
• Production Co.: Motlys AS
• World Sales: NFI

2012 Haugesund Best Nordic Film
2013 Norwegian Critics’ Assc. Best Norwegian Feature
2013 Kosmorama Trondheim Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Newcomer, Best Editing, Best Supporting Actress

Exceling at novels and short films, Dag Johan Haugerud’s debut feature is a warm and playful tragicomedy about people who all mean well, but end up hurting one another. A nurse is scrutinised at work because she switches to speaking English when she gets nervous. A translator compromises her integrity when persuaded to translate a book she doesn’t believe in. An elderly woman and her daughter are humiliated when offered a huge sum of money as present from a relative. The women from all three stories are effortlessly linked together, painfully aware that everything is going exactly as it should, but something feels not normal. I Belong examines what happens when people stop acting like they’re supposed to and shows everyday situations that seem of little importance to one person but can feel like disasters to others.

* In accordance with Article 7 of the Law No. 5224 amended on 18.01.2019, cinema films that have not been reviewed and classified can only be screened in festivals, special screenings and similar cultural and artistic events with an 18+ age restriction.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.