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Event Series Event Series: I Have Electric Dreams

I Have Electric Dreams

April 22 @ 6:15 pm 8:15 pm

Original Title • Tengo Sueños Eléctricos

I have electric dreams - Tengo Sueños Electricos
Chicago Latino FIlm Festival 2023
DirectorCountryYearGenreDuration
Valentina MaurelCosta Rica2022Drama1hr 41m

Synopsis in English

Winner of the Best Director, Best Actress and Best Actor Award at the Locarno International Film Festival and the Horizon Awards at San Sebastian, Valentina Maurel’s feature debut focuses on Eva, a strong-willed and restless 16-year-old girl who lives with her mother, her younger sister and their cat, who 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.

Sinopsis en Español

Ganadora del premio a Mejor Director, a Mejor Actriz y Mejor Actor en el Festival Internacional de Cine de Locarno y el Premio Horizon en el de San Sebastián, este primer largometraje de Valentina Maurel se centra en Eva, una chica de 16 años obstinada e inquieta que vive con su madre, su hermana menor y su gato y que quiere desesperadamente mudarse con su padre. Aferrándose a él mientras él atraviesa una segunda adolescencia, ella busca un equilibrio entre la ternura y la sensibilidad de la vida adolescente y la crueldad del mundo adulto.

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SHORT FILM

Agustina • Agustina

DirectorCountryYearGenreDuration
Luciana Herrera CasoMexico2022Experimental17min.

Synopsis in English

Agustina is a girl with a great imagination. When she discovers that the trip to the moon that her teacher had promised her is only imaginary, she becomes devastated. A conflict develops in her country and Agustina has to find her own way to face reality.

Sinopsis en Español

Agustina es una niña con una gran imaginación. Cuando descubre que el viaje a la luna que su maestra le había prometido es sólo un viaje imaginario, queda devastada. Un conflicto se desarrolla en el país y Agustina tiene que encontrar su propia manera de enfrentar la realidad.

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