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Jessica Chastain On Finding Artistic Freedom With Michel Franco & Why She Remains Hopeful About U.S. Politics: “We’re Still Fighting The Good Fight”


'Dreams' debuts this evening at the Berlin Film Festival.

Mexican filmmaker Michel Franco has arrived in the German capital to debut his latest feature, Dreams, in competition at this year’s Berlin Film Festival. When her younger Mexican lover Fernando– a dancer she met through a dance school program run by her family’s foundation in Mexico – turns up at her home in San Francisco after making a perilous illegal journey across the border, their love story gets complicated. Elsewhere in the session Chastain praised this year’s crop of awards films and encouraged all watching to seek out Mohammad Rasoulof’s The Seed Of A Sacred Fig.

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