Dreaming Awake In The Trailer For EL SOÑADOR

Director Adrián Saba turned some heads with his first movie El Limpiador (The Cleaner) a minimalist drama with sci-fi elements that showed the relationship between an orphaned boy and the man in charge of cleaning up after the corpses left in the wake of a deadly virus which left the capital city of Lima a virtual ghost town,

Essentially, it was a post-apocalyptic film filtered through the director's unique sensibilities; just the logistics behind making this chaotic, noisy city look abandoned and desolate on screen were worthy of praise.

Now Saba's coming back to theaters with his sophomore feature El Soñador (The Dreamer), which premiered earlier this year at the Berlin Film Festival, in the Generation section.

The film tells the story of Chaplin, a kid with a talent for lockpicking working with a dangerous band of criminals who retreats into his dreams as an escape from reality. Going by the recently released trailer, this looks to be Saba's peculiar take on a crime drama. Watch it below.

El Soñador opens in Peruvian theatres on 1 September. Already it's one of the most eagerly awaited releases in a year which has so far seen mostly national comedies and horror films.