Director
Ernesto Contreras
Starring
Fernando Álvarez Rebeil, Manuel Poncelis, Eligio Meléndez, Fátima Molina
Certificate
12A
Run Time
100 mins
Release Year
2017
Country of Origin
Mexico
Language
Spanish
Director of Photography: Tonatiuh Martínez
Editor: Jorge Macaya
Produced by: Mónica Lozano, Luis Albores, Érika Ávila, Eamon O’Farrill, Dijana Olcay-Hot, Raymond van der Kaaij
Music: Andrés Sánchez
Screenplay by: Carlos Contreras
Production Designer: Bárbara Enríquez
Sound Production: Enrique Greiner
Director Bio
Ernesto Contreras
P&I - Director Bio
Ernesto Contreras is a graduate from the Centre for Studies in Communication Sciences and later from the University Centre for Cinematographic Studies of the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He has directed four feature films, winning national and international acknowledgments. His first feature, Blue Eyelids, was nominated for the Caméra d’Or at the 60th Cannes Film Festival.
I Dream in Another Language (Sueno en Otro Idioma)
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When linguistics expert Martín travels to a remote village in Mexico to study the ancient, near-dead language of Zikril, he learns that the only two remaining native speakers, Don Isauro and Don Evaristo, have not spoken to each other in many years. As Martin pushes for a reconciliation and his bond with Evaristo’s granddaughter deepens, the painful story behind the rift emerges. This is languorous, engaging cinema with lush cinematography and a poetic underpinning that never veers into sentimentality.