The Mexican director-writer-producer Michel Franco has come to the Sarajevo Film Festival with every one of his nine features. He returns “because he feels like part of the family,” 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, “It’s like a heaven for film and we need those spaces.”

This year, in addition to holding a public Masterclass, he presented his ninth feature, “Dreams,” starring Jessica Chastain alongside the talented Mexican ballet dancer Isaac Hernández as her younger lover. It marks his second feature with Chastain after “Memory” (2023). Chastain also served as an executive producer on “Dreams.”

Franco had a rough idea about what “Dreams” could be for se

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