Teenage longing rarely gets filmed with this much patience. I Have Electric Dreams follows Eva, sixteen and torn between the mother raising her and the father she keeps chasing after, across a Costa Rican coming-of-age drama that trusts small gestures over big speeches.
What is I Have Electric Dreams about?
Eva lives with her mother, her younger sister, and the family cat, but her attention keeps drifting toward her estranged father. She pushes to spend more time with him, testing how much tenderness he can actually offer a daughter he sees only in pieces. The film stays close to Eva's point of view as she swings between the softness of first crushes and the sharper edges of a household coming apart, never resolving her contradictions for the sake of a tidy arc. Writer-director Valentina Maurel builds the story from ordinary days rather than plot turns, letting Eva's need for her father's attention sit uncomfortably alongside her growing independence.
About the cast
Daniela Marín Navarro anchors the film as Eva, opposite Reinaldo Amien Gutiérrez as the father she idealizes and resents in equal measure. Vivian Rodríguez Barquero plays her mother, with José Pablo Segreda Johanning, Mayté Ortega, Adriana Castro Garcia, and Jeniffer Fernández rounding out the household and the wider circle of Eva's world.
Context & significance
The production draws on backing from Belgium, Costa Rica, and France, a co-production path common to Central American arthouse cinema seeking wider festival reach. Valentina Maurel's focus on adolescent interiority — the private negotiations a teenager runs with herself before she says anything out loud — carries through the film's visual restraint, favoring close, patient framing over stylistic flourish. The Spanish-language drama sits within a broader wave of Latin American coming-of-age films that treat family rupture as ordinary rather than melodramatic.
Watching I Have Electric Dreams on Ktime
I Have Electric Dreams streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so Farsi-speaking viewers can follow Eva's story in either format. The film's page is free to read without an account; watching it requires only a free K-Time login, with the interface itself available in Farsi for the diaspora audience.