Beware of Children | Barn

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"It's the kind of unassuming-looking drama that slowly seeps into your bones."

The Hollywood Reporter
  • Archive - Festival 35
  • Director: Dag Johan Haugerud
  • Norway, Sweden 2019
  • 157 minutes
  • Norwegian
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

During a break in school in an Oslo suburb 13-year-old Lykke, the daughter of a prominent Labour Party member, seriously injures her classmate Jamie, the son of a high-profile right-wing politician. Jamie later dies in hospital. The school’s staff and parents must navigate this traumatic situation, which is made more difficult by the web of relationships that link them, and their conflicted loyalties and secrets.

Beware of Children, a gripping, nuanced and dark humored drama, comes to Haifa directly from its world premiere in the Venice Festival.

Filmography: I Belong (2012).


  • Director Dag Johan Haugerud
  • Production Yngve Sæther
  • Script Dag Johan Haugerud
  • Cinematography Øystein Mamen
  • Editing Jens Christian Fodstad
  • Music Arnaud Fleurent-Didier, Peder Kjellsby
  • Festivals Venice, Busan
  • Actors Henriette Steenstrup, Jan Gunnar Roise, Thorbjorn Harr
  • Source Picture Tree International, Berlin