Hege Skjerven Clausen

Hege Skjerven Clausen’s filmography is a bit like stumbling into someone’s diary, except the handwriting is way neater and the stories are wild. She’s the mind behind “Dreams (Sex Love)” from 2024—yeah, that title grabs you by the collar. It’s not your cookie-cutter romance, either. The film pokes at intimacy, desire, and all those messy feelings no one likes to talk about at brunch. It’s raw, sometimes awkward, occasionally sweet, and it never tries to pretty up the truth. You get these characters fumbling through connections, chasing after what they think they want, and sometimes crashing straight into what they actually need. It’s honest, a little bit bruised, and totally unfiltered. Then there’s “Aldri voksen” from 2020, which basically translates to “Never Grown Up.” If you’ve ever felt like an imposter in your own adulthood—bills piling up, social life in shambles, pretending you know how taxes work—this one is your anthem. Clausen nails that weird twilight zone between youth and whatever grown-up is supposed to mean. There’s humor, there’s heartbreak, and it’s all tangled up in the chaos of daily life. And “Love” (2024) rounds things out, digging into all the ways people try to find connection, mess it up, and sometimes, just maybe, get it right. Clausen doesn’t sugarcoat anything, but she finds the beauty in the mess. Her movies are like a good playlist: a little rough around the edges, but they hit you right where it counts.