We Are Not Dreaming

There is a small but telling discrepancy embedded in the release materials for *We Are Not Dreaming* — its Portuguese subtitle, *Não Estamos Sonhando*, reads as a firm, present-tense negation, while the Wikipedia entry associated with the film carries the alternate English rendering *As We Were Dreaming*, a phrase that tilts toward elegy and retrospect. That tension between the declarative and the wistful, between what is happening now and what might be remembered later, turns out to be a reasonable way to approach the film itself, which is scheduled for release on August 6, 2026, and arrives in Portuguese, almost certainly produced within Brazil given the specificity of its social setting. Read more…