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I HAVE ELECTRIC DREAMS
TENGO SUEÑOS ELÉCTRICOS

• Director: Valentina Maurel
• BELGIUM, FRANCE, COSTA RICA / 2022 / DCP / Colour / 101’ / Spanish; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Valentina Maurel
• Director of Photography: Nicolás Wong Díaz
• Editing: Bertrand Conard
• Cast: Reinaldo Amien Gutiérrez, Daniela Marín Navarro, Vivian Rodríguez, José Pablo Segreda Johanning
• Producer: Benoit Roland, Grégoire Debailly, Felipe Cordero, Valentina Maurel
• Production Co.: Wrong Men, Geko Films, Tres Tigres Films
• World Sales: Heretic

2022 Thessaloniki Best Film, Best Actor
2022 Locarno Best Direction, Best Actress, Best Actor
2022 San Sebastian Best Film–Horizontes Latinos
2022 Mar del Plata FIPRESCI Prize
2022 Reykjavik Special Mention
2022 Goa Best Film, Best Actress

Enchanting and captivating from the moment it opens, I Have Electric Dreams paints a tender, emotionally intense, visually innovative portrait of Eva—a restless teenage girl, who realises that adulthood isn’t the golden age she dreamed of. Strong-willed Eva lives with her mother, her younger sister and their cat, but desperately wants to move in with her estranged father. She balances between the tenderness and sensitivity of teenage life and the ruthlessness of the adult world. Costa Rican director based in Belgium, Valentina Maurel about her debut film: ‘But this isn’t a coming-of-age tale, Eva’s trajectory isn’t that of a teen who becomes an adult, it’s that of a teenager who realises there aren’t really any adults around her.’

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.