I Have Electric Dreams

Tengo sueños eléctricos

63rd TIFF: Greek Premiere

Eva is a strong-willed, restless 16-year-old girl who lives with her mother, her younger sister, and their cat, but desperately wants to move in with her estranged father. Clinging onto him as he goes through a second adolescence, she balances between the tenderness and sensitivity of teenage life and the ruthlessness of the adult world. Bathed in a richly textured imagery and soaked in raw sensitivity, the film captures the thin line between love and hate, in a world where aggression and rage intertwined with the vertigo of female sexual awakening.

Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.

Available at the Agora Market TIFF63.

Direction: Valentina Maurel

Script: Valentina Maurel

Cinematography: Nicolás Wong Andres Diaz

Editing: Bertrand Conard

Sound: Erick Arnoldo Vargas Ortega

Actors: Daniela Marín Navarro, Reinaldo Amien Gutiérrez

Production: Wrong Men, Geko Films

Producers: Benoit Roland, Grégoire Debailly

Co-production: Tres Tigres Films

Co-producers: Felipe Cordero, Valentina Maurel

Costumes: Mauricio Esquivel

Production Design: Guillaume Landron, Mauricio Esquivel

Make Up: Paula Carvajal

Format: DCP

Color: Color

Production Country: Belgium, France, Costa Rica

Production Year: 2022

Duration: 103΄

Contact: Heretic

Awards/Distinctions: Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress – Locarno IFF 2022, Horizontes Latinos Award – San Sebastián IFF 2022

Valentina Maurel

Valentina Maurel, a Franco-Costarican filmmaker based in Costa Rica, she graduated from Insas, Brussels, with a degree in filmmaking. She directed Paul is Here, her graduation film, for which she received the First Cinéfondation Prize at the Cannes Film Festival 2017. Lucía en el limbo, her second short film shot in Costa Rica, was selected at the Critics’ Week at Cannes 2019, at the Toronto International Film Festival TIFF, and received the first prize at the Guanajuato International Film Festival in Mexico.