Filming wraps on Watch Your Dreams, Gonzalo Bendala’s third feature
- Óscar Casas, Fiona Palomo, José Coronado and Najwa Nimri topline the cast of this psychological thriller being produced by Áralan Films, with Film Factory Entertainment handling international sales
Watch Your Dreams is a psychological thriller directed by Gonzalo Bendala (Cuando los ángeles duermen [+see also:
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With a script by David Sueiro and Gonzalo Bendala, the film introduces us to Jaime (played by Óscar Casas), a lawyer trapped in a life that is suffocating him, who discovers induced lucid dreaming when he meets the enigmatic Clara (Fiona Palomo) - she introduces him to a method that makes it possible to completely control the dream world. Together, they share dreams and a refuge where the young man finds the freedom that reality denies him. But the more he immerses himself in that universe, the more blurred the boundaries between dream and waking life become.
“It's a story about the limits of consciousness and the need to escape a life we don’t feel is our own,” say the film’s makers, “as it delves into terrain as fascinating as it is real: lucid dreams. The movie draws inspiration from these methods and from the growing community of oneironauts, whose testimonies and experiences have fed into the movie’s narrative.”
This is something the director (who is also the producer of titles such as Invisible, Rita [+see also:
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Watch Your Dreams is being produced by Marta Velasco, for Áralan Films, and Lucidez AIE, with the participation of HBO Max, RTVE and Canal Sur Radio y Televisión, and the support of the Regional Government of Andalusia via the Andalusian Agency for Cultural Institutions under the Ministry of Culture. It also boasts the involvement of CREA SGR. The film will be released in 2026, with Film Factory Entertainment handling sales, while AF Pictures will cover Latin American territories.
(Translated from Spanish)
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