Soy libre
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.
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
LENGTH 87 Minuten
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34. Duisburger Filmwoche 6.11.10 |
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Idfa International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Holland 18.11.10 / 21.11.10 / 22.11.10 / 23.11.10 |
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2010 Firenze Festival dei Popoli, Italien International competition 19.11.10 / 20.11.10 |
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32. Festival Max Ophüls Preis Saarbrücken Wettbewerb Dokumentarfilm 19.01.11 / 21.01.11 / 22.01.11 |
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Cine Latino Filmfestival Stuttgart/Tübingen 16.04.2011 / 17.04.11 |
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Distrital Cine y otros mundos Mexico 1.06.11 / 3.06.11 / 5.06.11 |
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Festival des deutschen Films, Rhein-Neckar 16.06.11 / 18.06.11 / 19.06.11 |
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Euganea Film Festival Padua, Italien 1.07.11 - 17.07.11 |
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Golden Apricot - 8th Yerevan International Film Festival, Armenien
International competition 10.07.11 - 17.07.11 |
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Vancouver Latin American Filmfestival , Kanada Al Jazeera Documentary Award 1.09.11 - 11.09.11 |
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Argentinische Filmtage Leipzig/ Halle Special Screening 29.09.11/ 30.09.11 |
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28 Festival de Cine Bogota, Kolumbien 10.10.11 - 18.10.11 |
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Document 9 -International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Glasgow, Schottland Opening film
20.10.11 |
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FLAHERTIANA - XI International Documentary Film Festival, Russland 11.-17.10.11 |
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13 Festival Munial Poesia sin fin, OMNI, Cuba 10.12.11 / 21.12.11 |
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Lange Nacht der Museen Wagenhallen Stuttgart 17.03.12 |
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13th Irish Latin American Film Festival 15.04.12 / 18.04.12 |
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FIDADOC Filmfestival International de documentaire d' Agadir Marokko 26.04.12 |
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9th Planete Doc Film Festival Warschau 16.05.12/ 17.05.12 |
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KINO
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Kommunales Kino im alten Wiehrebahnhof Freiburg 23.03.11 - 25.03.11 |
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Autorentage "Kuba zu Gast" am Schauspielhaus Stuttgart 19.03.11 |
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Kino Cinegreth Überlingen 20.04.11 / 4.05.11 / 18.05.11 |
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Cinema Filmtheater Münster Lateinamerikanische Filmreihe 06.07.11 |
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Lamm Lichtspiele Erlangen 12.02.12 |
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Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut Heidelberg "Das Haus der Kultur" Heidelberg 04.05.12 |
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Filmhaus Nürnberg/ KunstKulturQuartier 28.05.12 - 30.05.12 |
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Wagenhallen Stuttgart, Stuttgartnacht 2012
20.10.12 |
AWARDS
| 2012 |
AIFF Almaty International Film Festival “Shaken Stars” - Kazakhstan
BEST NON-FEATURE FILM |
| 2011 |
Vancouver Latin American Filmfestival - Canada JURY PRICE OF THE AL JAZEERA DOCUMENTARY COMPETITION |
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2011 |
FLAHERTIANA - XI International Documentary Film Festival - Russia
SPECIAL JURY MENTION |
| 2009 | "Caligari Preis" of the Förderverein Filmakademie |
| 2006 | Scholarship of Landesstiftung Baden-Württemberg for one year at the International Filmschool EICTV in Kuba |