Locarno Competition Title ‘Tengo Sueños Eléctricos’ Nabbed by Heretic (EXCLUSIVE)

variety.com:

Christopher Vourlias Heretic, the Athens-based boutique production company and sales agent, has acquired world sales rights for “Tengo sueños eléctricos” (“I Have Electric Dreams”), by director Valentina Maurel, which will have its premiere in the Locarno Film Festival’s international competition.Set in Costa Rica, the film follows Eva (Daniela Marin Navarro), a strong-willed 16-year-old girl who lives with her mother, her younger sister and their cat, but desperately wants to move in with her estranged father (Reinaldo Amien Guttierez).

Clinging onto him as he goes through a second adolescence, she balances between the tenderness and sensitivity of teenage life and the ruthlessness of the adult world.

Produced by Wrong Men (Belgium) and co-produced with Geko Films (France) and Tres Tigres (Costa Rica), the film straddles the fine line between love and hate, in a world where aggression and rage are intertwined with the vertigo of female sexual awakening.“‘I Have Electric Dreams’ got us hooked from the very first minutes in the story,” said Heretic’s head of sales and acquisitions Ioanna Stais. “It is a heart-piercing portrait that gets under your skin and demands your emotional response to every scene.