I Dream in Another Language

Sueño en Otro Idioma

Guilty secrets that remained buried deep in the jungle rise to the surface through the research of a young linguist who seeks after the last traces of a dying language. He approaches two elderly peasants who speak this language, but he sadly realizes that the two of them haven’t exchanged a single word in the last 50 years. What is the right moment to find redemption? Where is this this exotic place where it is said that real love long lives? And is the language of the people in love destined to remain untranslatable today?

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Direction: Ernesto Contreras

Script: Carlos Contreras

Cinematography: Tonatiuh Martínez

Editing: Jorge Macaya

Sound: Enrique Greiner

Music: Andrés Sánchez

Actors: Fernando Álvarez Rebeil, Eligio Meléndez, Manuel Poncelis, Fátima Molina

Production: Agencia SHA, Alebrije Cine y Video, Revolver Amsterdam, Fondo para la Producción Cinematográfica de Calidad (Foprocine), Eficine 189, with Casa José Cuervo, Estudios Churubusco Azteca, EFD

Producers: Mónica Lozano, Luis Albores, Érika Ávila, Eamon O’Farrill, Dijana Olcay-Hot, Raymond van der Kaaij

Art Direction: Bárbara Enríquez

Costumes: Gabriela Fernández

Format: DCP

Color: Color

Production Country: Mexico

Production Year: 2017

Duration: 100'

Contact: Mundial, Imblobal

Awards/Distinctions: Audience Award – World Cinema Dramatic Competition, Sundance Film Festival 2017, USA

Ernesto Contreras

Graduate from the Center for Studies in Communication Sciences and later from the University Center for Cinematographic Studies (CUEC) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). He has directed four feature films, winning national and international acknowledgments.