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.

CREW

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 

 

SCREENINGS

FESTIVALS  

34. Duisburger Filmwoche

6.11.10

Idfa International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, Holland 

18.11.10 / 21.11.10 / 22.11.10 / 23.11.10   

2010 Firenze Festival dei Popoli, Italien

International competition 

19.11.10 / 20.11.10

32. Festival Max Ophüls Preis Saarbrücken

Wettbewerb Dokumentarfilm

19.01.11 / 21.01.11 / 22.01.11

Cine Latino Filmfestival Stuttgart/Tübingen 

16.04.2011 / 17.04.11

Distrital Cine y otros mundos Mexico 

1.06.11 / 3.06.11 / 5.06.11

Festival des deutschen Films, Rhein-Neckar

16.06.11 / 18.06.11 / 19.06.11

Euganea Film Festival Padua, Italien

1.07.11 - 17.07.11 

Golden Apricot - 8th Yerevan International Film Festival, Armenien

International competition

10.07.11 - 17.07.11

Vancouver Latin American Filmfestival , Kanada

Al Jazeera Documentary Award

1.09.11 - 11.09.11

Argentinische Filmtage Leipzig/ Halle

Special Screening

29.09.11/ 30.09.11

28 Festival de Cine Bogota, Kolumbien

10.10.11 - 18.10.11

Document 9 -International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Glasgow, Schottland

Opening film

20.10.11

FLAHERTIANA - XI International Documentary Film Festival, Russland
International competition

 11.-17.10.11

13 Festival Munial Poesia sin fin, OMNI, Cuba

10.12.11 / 21.12.11

Lange Nacht der Museen Wagenhallen Stuttgart

17.03.12

13th Irish Latin American Film Festival

15.04.12 / 18.04.12

FIDADOC Filmfestival International de documentaire d' Agadir Marokko

26.04.12

9th Planete Doc Film Festival Warschau

16.05.12/ 17.05.12

 

KINO

 

Kommunales Kino im alten Wiehrebahnhof Freiburg

23.03.11 - 25.03.11

Autorentage "Kuba zu Gast" am Schauspielhaus Stuttgart

19.03.11

Kino Cinegreth Überlingen  

20.04.11 / 4.05.11 / 18.05.11

Cinema Filmtheater Münster

Lateinamerikanische Filmreihe

06.07.11

Lamm Lichtspiele Erlangen

12.02.12

Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut Heidelberg "Das Haus der Kultur" Heidelberg

04.05.12

Filmhaus Nürnberg/ KunstKulturQuartier

28.05.12 - 30.05.12

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

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

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