I Dream in Another Language
Watch TrailerIn a remote Mexican village, the last speaker of the Zikril language is dying. Linguist Martín races to document the vanishing knowledge, but the old man Evaristo refuses to speak. Their encounter awakens ancient spirits guarding the secret of a century-old feud between two elders that tore a people apart. Silence becomes a battleground where every forgotten word is a lost world. Dreams in a foreign tongue emerge as the key to a reconciliation that could save not only a dying dialect but the very souls who preserved it.
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📋 Film Details
| Original Title | Sueño en otro idioma |
| Year | 2017 |
| Country | Mexico, Netherlands, Israel |
| Genre | Fantasy, Drama |
| Director | Ernesto Contreras |
| Runtime | 101 min. |
| Rating | TMDB: 7.9/10 (142 votes) |
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Ernesto Contreras crafts a quiet, hypnotic meditation on loss, where the fantastical grows from the very soil of memory and grief. The frame breathes with its characters, and the sound design turns silence into the protagonist.
What lingers after the credits is the fragile universe where language is not just words but the living flesh of culture. A sad and beautiful ode to everything we irrevocably lose on the path forward. — MovieFinder Editorial
Director: Ernesto Contreras
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The drowsy heat of the village, air thick with the unspoken. The whisper of leaves holding more meaning than people.
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