The Jessica Chastain/Isaac Hernández drama Dreams from Mexican director Michel Franco, has landed distribution deals across multiple territories, with The Match Factory closing for most of Europe as well as the Middle East and some Asian regions.
The drama, which premiered in competition at the Berlin film festival in February, sees Hernández play Fernando, a young ballet dancer from Mexico with ambitions of global success. Believing his lover Jennifer (Chastain), a wealthy philanthropist, will support his aspirations, he leaves his old life behind—barely escaping a fatal outcome. His arrival, however, unsettles Jennifer’s carefully controlled existence, setting off a chain of events that challenges both their futures. Dreams was a critical hit at the festival, with The Hollywood Reporter‘s chief reviewer David Rooney calling it a “conflicted love story that finds nerve-jangling ways to keep shifting the power balance.”
Among Match Factory’s confirmed deals for the feature were agreements with Metropolitan Filmexport for France, Weltkino Filmverleih for Germany/Austria, Fandango for Italy, Sideral for Spain and Lucky Dogs for Scandinavia. Best Film will oversee the release in Poland, Paradiso in Benelux, and ACME Film in the Baltics. Other deals include Films 4 You (Portugal), Spentzos Film (Greece), Ascot Elite (Switzerland), Aerofilms (Czech Republic & Slovakia), Transilvania Film (Romania), ADS (Hungary), MCF MegaCom (Ex-Yugoslavia), Bir Film (Turkey), Front Row (MENA), NK Contents (South Korea), and Andrews Film (Taiwan). Dreams is still looking for a U.S. distributor.
Dreams is produced by Teorema, with Michel Franco and Eréndira Núñez Larios serving as producers, and Jessica Chastain and Kelly Carmichael executive producing for Freckle Films, Vladimir Artemenko for Eastern Film, and Alexander Rodnyansky for AR Content.
