Venner for altid, Friends Forever in English (literally Friends for All Time) is a Danish

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 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

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, Washington, D.C.

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 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

Copenhagen

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 Gay and Lesbian Film Festival by its Danish distributor, Nordisk.

Henszelman lived to direct one more film, Dagens Donna (1990). He died of AIDS

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on October 2, 1991, aged 31.

Plot summary

Teenager Kristian moves to a new neighborhood and makes friends with two boys in his new school: Henrik, an independent loner, and Patrick, leader of a gang. Later on, Kristian is startled to find Patrick is having an affair with the captain of a soccer team and this leads him to explore his own feelings.