Dreams

Jessica Chastain shines in Michel Franco’s chilling love story about erotic passion, power dynamics, boundaries, and the toxic flipside of kindness.

Ballet dancer Fernando (Isaac Hernández) dreams of a career in the U.S. Convinced that his lover – wealthy American philanthropist Jennifer (Chastain) – will help him, he crosses the border from Mexico. But when he unexpectedly shows up at her door, her tightly controlled world is thrown off balance. Franco (last seen at GFF with Memory in 2024) drills with razor-sharp precision into the divide between the privileged and the marginalized, Americans and Mexicans, women and men. The result is an searing film of our time – uncompromising, unforgettable.

• Johan Blomqvist