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DREAMS

• Director: Michel Franco
• MEXICO, USA / 2025 / DCP / Colour / 100’ / English, Spanish; Turkish, English s.t.

• Screenplay: Michel Franco
• Director of Photography: Yves Cape
• Editing: Michel Franco, Oscar Figueroa Jara
• Cast: Jessica Chastain, Isaac Hernández, Rupert Friend, Marshall Bell, Eligio Meléndez, Mercedes Hernández
• Producer: Michel Franco, Eréndira Núñez Larios, Alexander Rodnyansky
• Production Co.: Teorema
• World Sales: The Match Factory
• Turkish Rights: Bir Film

This is Michel Franco’s most recent film following Nuevo Orden (New Order) (2020) Sundown (2021), and Memory (2023), which also starred Jessica Chastain. Dreams follows Fernando, a young ballet dancer from Mexico, who dreams of international recognition and a life in the US. Believing his lover, Jennifer, a socialite and philanthropist, will support him, he leaves everything behind— narrowly escaping death in the process. However, his arrival disrupts Jennifer’s carefully curated world. Premiering at the Berlinale, the film stars Mexican ballet dancer Isaac Hernández as Fernando.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.