Friends Forever (1987)

Original title

Venner for altid

Directed by

Stefan Henszelman

Genre

drama film, coming-of-age film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

Denmark

Runtime

1h 34m

Rated

R

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 13 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two teenage boys navigate their friendship and first love in 1980s Denmark. The film follows their bond as they face school and family, and the challenges of coming out.

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What happens

Friends Forever (Danish: Venner for altid, lit. "Friends for All Time") is a Danish film produced in 1986 and released at the beginning of 1987. It was directed by Stefan Henszelman to a script by himself and Alexander Kørschen, was shown to large audiences in New York City, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco and garnered the 1988 Audience Award at the San Francisco International Lesbian & Gay Film Festival. The film was successfully shown at the 2005 Copenhagen Gay and Lesbian Film Festival by its Danish distributor, Nordisk. Henszelman lived to direct one more film, Dagens Donna (1990). He died of AIDS on October 2, 1991, aged 31. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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