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Icons, 2025

Dreams

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Director Michel FRANCO

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Dreams is the ninth film from Mexican cineaste Michel Franco, who has relentlessly reshaped and reexamined themes of class, control and oppression, and love and death throughout his previous works. Fernando, a Mexican man who dreams of becoming a ballet dancer, believes in love as he illegally crosses the border into the United States. However, his lover Jennifer, an upper-class American woman, tries to manage and control the situation by keeping him at a careful distance. The subtle emotions of love between the two characters, teetering on the edge of dependence and charity, gradually distort under the weight of class and reality, eventually reaching a breaking point and meeting a chilling catastrophe. Condensing the issues of immigration, race, and class into the intimate relationship between a man and a woman, the film shows how structural inequality manifests in the most personal of spaces. It keenly exposes the class hierarchy and the process of unconscious domination packaged in the word ‘love.’

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Dreams 1 — Teorema

Dreams 2 — Teorema

Dreams 3 — Teorema

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Screenings3

Thu, 09/18

09:3011:08

LOTTE CINEMA Centum City 5

055KE, Korean subtitles + English subtitles or English dialogue

Mon, 09/22

09:3011:08

LOTTE CINEMA Centum City 5

375KE, Korean subtitles + English subtitles or English dialogue

Thu, 09/25

21:0022:38

LOTTE CINEMA Centum City 5

604KE, Korean subtitles + English subtitles or English dialogue

Film details

Director: Michel FRANCO
Country/Region: Mexico, United States
Year: 2025
Length: 98min
Section: Icons
Edition: Busan International Film Festival 2025, No. 30
Original language: Spanish
Format: DCP, Color
Selection: Official selection
Elsewhere: Festival page Letterboxd IMDb Wikidata TMDB Douban

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Michel FRANCO

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Director: Michel FRANCO
Producer: Michel FRANCO, Eréndira NÚÑEZ LARIOS, Alexander RODNYANSKY
Cast: Jessica CHASTAIN, Isaac HERNÁNDEZ, Rupert FRIEND, Marshall BELL, Eligio MELÉNDEZ, Mercedes HERNÁNDEZ
Screenplay: Michel FRANCO
Cinematography: Yves CAPE
Production company: Teorema
World sales: Match Factory

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