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I Have Electric Dreams (Tengo sueños eléctricos)

Valentina Maurel
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Female Director First feature film 2022 100 min Belgium, France, Costa Rica
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Synopsis

High tension father-daughter bonding

Eva is a strong-willed, restless 16-year-old girl who lives with her divorced mother and younger sister and their cat. She is desperate to move in with her father, a bohemian poet leading a wayward lifestyle. But as the fortysomething Martin goes through what could graciously be termed a second adolescence, Eva finds herself caught between the tenderness and sensitivity of teenage life and the ruthlessness of the adult world.

In the foggy reality of adolescence, immersed in a disintegrating world, I wanted to talk about filial love, the transmission of violence, the vertigo of sexual discovery, trying to grasp what makes the border between hate and love so porous.
Propos du réalisateur - Valentina Maurel

Screenplay

  • Valentina Maurel

Cinematographer

  • Nicolás Wong Díaz

Sound

  • Erick Arnoldo Vargas Ortega

Production

  • Wrong Men
  • Geko Films

Screenings

Friday 03 March 2023 21:15
Lieux : Ciné Utopia
Audio : Spanish
Subtitles : French
Screening : Public Screening
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Saturday 04 March 2023 18:30
Talent présent  •  
Lieux : Cinémathèque
Audio : Spanish
Subtitles : English
Screening : Public Screening
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Thursday 09 March 2023 16:00
Lieux : Cinémathèque
Audio : Spanish
Subtitles : English
Screening : Public Screening
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Valentina Maurel

Valentina Maurel
Valentina Maurel

Costa Rica-based Valentina Maurel obtained a degree in Filmmaking from the Insas in Brussels. Her graduation film, Paul is Here was awarded the First Cinefondation 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 and won first prize at the Guanajuato International Film Festival in Mexico.

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Filmography

  • I have electric dreams 2022
  • Secuelas de la Cuarentena (TV series) 2020
  • Lucía dans les limbes (short) 2019
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