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\n\tThe Mexican director-writer-producer Michel Franco has come to the Sarajevo Film Festival with every one of his nine features. He returns \u201cbecause he feels like part of the family,\u201d he said at the Variety<\/em> Lounge, presented by the Sarajevo Film Festival and BH Telecom.<\/p>\n \n\tIn particular, Franco loves the young and enthusiastic audience. He says, \u201cIt\u2019s like a heaven for film and we need those spaces.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThis year, in addition to holding a public Masterclass, he presented his ninth feature, \u201cDreams,\u201d starring Jessica Chastain alongside the talented Mexican ballet dancer Isaac Hern\u00e1ndez as her younger lover. It marks his second feature with Chastain after \u201cMemory\u201d (2023). Chastain also served as an executive producer on \u201cDreams.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tFranco had a rough idea about what \u201cDreams\u201d could be for several years. He told Jessica about it while shooting \u201cMemory.\u201d Both of them wanted to collaborate again, so the films were shot back to back.<\/p>\n \n\tAsked if he regarded himself as a political filmmaker, he noted, \u201cMy main goal is to make a good film on my own terms, in this case an intimate love story that goes to places that a love story shouldn\u2019t go to. And represents something bigger because of where it\u2019s set.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe imbalance in the relationship between the wealthy philanthropist played by Chastain and the much younger dancer (and illegal immigrant) portrayed by Hern\u00e1ndez may certainly be read as a metaphor. Franco says, \u201cI\u2019ve always been worried and dissatisfied with the power relationship between Mexico and the U.S.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThere are many intimate scenes in \u201cDreams.\u201d \u201cThe most important thing,\u201d says Franco, \u201cis that every intimate scene is there for a reason and pushes the story further\u2026 The film couldn\u2019t be complete without them.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cDreams\u201d will have a U.S. release through Greenwich Entertainment in the first quarter of 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Mexican director-writer-producer Michel Franco has come to the Sarajevo Film Festival with every one of his nine features. He returns \u201cbecause he feels like part of the family,\u201d he said at the Variety Lounge, presented by the Sarajevo Film Festival and BH Telecom. In particular, Franco loves the young and enthusiastic audience. He says,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[10749,7536,10748,2115,10747,4113],"class_list":{"0":"post-17727","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-chastain","9":"tag-dreams","10":"tag-franco","11":"tag-jessica","12":"tag-michel","13":"tag-sex"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}