North American Premiere
Investigating the sacred space of dreams, César-winning filmmaker Gala Hernández López (+10K, MODES 2025) returns to VIFF with a prescient and downright surreal take on a fictional startup: Prophetic, which poses a provocative yet plausible future laden with neurocapitalist ambitions. If the goal is to control our dreams, what do our dreams see when they look back at us?
Susan O’Doherty, Eric Wollberg
Spain/Italy/France
2026
English
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Credits & Director
Producer
Gala Hernández López, Leonardo Bigazzi
Screenwriter
Gala Hernández López
Cinematography
Artur Pol Camprubí
Editor
Dinah Ekchajzer
Original Music
Hara Alonso
Gala Hernández López
Gala Hernández López is an artist, filmmaker, and researcher. Her work critically analyzes new modes of subjectivation produced by computational capitalism and has been presented at many renowned international festivals and institutions. Her film La Mécanique des fluides won the César for Best Documentary Short Film in 2024.
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