Johan is an ordinary young man who keeps all doors open when it comes to both love and sex. He has landed a job as a receptionist at Adonis, Copenhagen’s only gay sauna, where he not only works but also shares experiences and encounters with the sauna’s other guests. For Johan, the city is like a boundless paradise of opportunities with bars, parties, and one-night stands, but it is only when he meets the transgender William that he experiences love up close. The love between the two is put to a tough test, as is often the case when living in a society governed by rigid ideas about gender, love, and identity.
Presented at the Sundance Film Festival.
Sauna
2025
16 years
103 min.
Fiction
Denmark
Denmark, international film festivals, LGBTQIA+, identity, love relationship
Colorido
Mathias Broe
Mathias Broe, William Lippert
Nicolai Lok
Linda Man
Magnus Juhl Andersen, Nina Rask, Dilan Amin, Klaus Tange, Peter Oliver Hansen
Mads-August Hertz
Nordisk Film
Emil Davidsen
TrustNordisk
49