Official Competition
I Have Electric Dreams (Tengo sueños eléctricos)
Valentina Maurel
Female Director
First feature film
2022
100 min
Belgium, France, Costa Rica
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.
Screenplay
- Valentina Maurel
Cinematographer
- Nicolás Wong Díaz
Sound
- Erick Arnoldo Vargas Ortega
Production
- Wrong Men
- Geko Films
Screenings
Date
Hour
Place
Language
Subtitles
Screening
Friday 03 March 2023
21:15
Saturday 04 March 2023
18:30
Thursday 09 March 2023
16:00
Trailer and photos
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.
Filmography
- I have electric dreams 2022
- Secuelas de la Cuarentena (TV series) 2020
- Lucía dans les limbes (short) 2019
