City of Dreams

About City of Dreams

A Mexican teenager whose dreams of becoming a soccer star are disrupted when his mother dies. He's smuggled across the border with the promise of a better life but is instead sold to a sweatshop in downtown LA.

Mohit Ramchandani's City of Dreams is a 2024 thriller film. At 114 minutes long, it arrived in August 2024.

Its themes are football (soccer), child labour, child trafficking, and coming of age.

Ari Lopez stars as Jesús, Renata Vaca as Elena, Andrés Delgado as Cesar, and Diego Calva as Carlitos. The screenplay is by Mohit Ramchandani. It was produced by Original Entertainment and P2 Films. In the United States it streams on Hulu.

Palo Alto, Gregory's Girl, and Varsity Punks make useful companions to City of Dreams. It carries a R rating.