Soy libre - I am free
A documentary by Andrea Roggon
Completed
Synopsis
Faces, sounds and voices from Havana. Off-screen and with complete honesty, Cubans tell us about their idea of freedom. "It is a lie I have repeated so often, I have started to believe it: I am free." They are very well aware of the restrictions placed on them as human beings: "I can do whatever I want, but only within a clearly defined context, place and time." Public enemy number one is Yoani Sánchez, a female blogger who exposes the nature of the system in her articles. Her aim with her blog, Generación Y, is to overcome her apathy and silence. "Freedom is the freedom to scream in public that you are not free," she says. Many desperate Cubans have braved the hazardous crossing to the United States. But in the words of poet Konstantinos P. Kavafis you will always be walking the streets of Havana wherever you go - you can't shake off the past. The peaceful, beautifully framed street scenes and exceptional soundtrack supplement the stories told in this production by Baden-Württemberg Film Academy student Andrea Roggon. The people shown in the film are not those speaking. We watch them as they get crammed onto the bus, or wash their hair. We see puddles on the street, rolling waves, like mirrors.
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SCREENPLAY / DIRECTION Andrea Roggon
CINEMATOGRAPHY Hagen Schönherr / Petra Lisson
STEADICAM Hagen Schönherr
MONTAGE Julia Böhm / Andrea Roggon
SOUND Eduardo Cáceres Staackmann
SOUND DESIGN Bastus Trump / Eduardo Cáceres Staackmann
MUSIC Clangoin / Oliver Frick / Mirella Kern /
Niko Lazarakopoulos / Thorsten Puttenat
TITLEDESIGN / ARTWORK Roland Matusek
COMPOSITING Holger Hummel / Martin Minsel
PRODUCTION Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg
PRODUCER Andrea Roggon / Hagen Schönherr / Daniellis Hernandez
FORMAT HDCAM
RATIO 1:1.85
SOUND Stereo
DURATION 87 Minuten
FESTIVALS
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Tage des Dokumentarfilms Ludwigsburg, Germany 11.10.10 |
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34. Duisburger Filmwoche, Germany 6.11.10 |
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Idfa International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Netherlands 18.11.10 / 21.11.10 / 22.11.10 / 23.11.10 |
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2010 Firenze Festival dei Popoli, Italy International competition 19.11.10 / 20.11.10 |
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32. Festival Max Ophüls Preis Saarbrücken, Germany Wettbewerb Dokumentarfilm 19.01.11 / 21.01.11 / 22.01.11 |
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Cine Latino Filmfestival Stuttgart/Tübingen, Germany 16.04.2011 / 17.04.11 |
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Distrital Mexico 1.06.11 / 3.06.11 / 5.06.11 |
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Festival des deutschen Films, Rhein-Neckar, Germany 16.06.11 / 18.06.11 / 19.06.11 |
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Euganea Film Festival Padua, Italy 1.07.11 - 17.07.11 |
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Golden Apricot - 8th Yerevan International Film Festival, Armenia
International competition 10.07.11 - 17.07.11 |
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Vancouver Latin American Filmfestival , Canada Al Jazeera Documentary Award 1.09.11 - 11.09.11 |
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Argentinische Filmtage Leipzig, Germany Special Screening 29.09.11/ 30.09.11 |
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Document 9 -International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Glasgow, Scotland Opening film
20.10.11 |
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FLAHERTIANA - XI International Documentary Film Festival, Russia tba (11.-17.10.11)
13 Festival mundial poesia sin fin, OMNI, Cuba 10.12.11, 21.12.11 |
Cinema
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Kommunales Kino im alten Wiehrebahnhof Freiburg, Germany 23.03.11 - 25.03.11 |
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Autorentage am Schauspielhaus Stuttgart, Germany 19.03.11 |
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Kino Cinegreth Überlingen, Germany 20.04.11 / 4.05.11 / 18.05.11 |
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Cinema Filmtheater Münster, Germany Lateinamerikanische Filmreihe 06.07.11
Lamm Lichtspiele Erlangen
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Awards
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JURY PRIZE OF THE AL JAZEERA DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION Vancouver Latin American Filmfestival , Canada |
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Special Jury Mention for Soy libre FLAHERTIANA - XI International Documentary Film Festival, Russia |
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CALIGARI AWARD Friends of the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg, Germany |
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Studentship for a one year student residency at the international film school EICTV in Cuba Landesstiftung Baden-Württemberg |