Libertad

Synopsis

These are the last summer holidays the Vidal family will spend with their grandma Ángela, who has Alzheimer's. And for the first time, Nora feels out of place: she's outgrown children's games but doesn't yet get adults' conversations. All this suddenly changes with the arrival of rebellious and magnetic Libertad, the daughter of her grandma's Colombian carer, Rosana. Nora's summer takes on a whole new look as the two girls, from utterly different social classes, lose no time in forging a intense, albeit, unequal friendship. Together they escape from their protective family bubbles and comfort zones to discover a new world where Nora feels freer than ever. A no-holds-barred coming-of-age journey.

Bio/Filmo

Clara Roquet (Malla, 1988) has a Master's Degree in Screenwriting from Columbia University. 10.000 km (2014), which she cowrote together with director Carlos Marques-Marcet, won a clutch of awards at Málaga Film Festival and the Gaudí Awards, including Best Screenplay. She went on to write the screenplay for Jaime Rosales's Petra and Carlos Marques-Marcet's Els dies que vindran, which won Best Film at the Málaga Film Festival in 2019. In 2021 she wrote the screenplay for Mounia Akl's debut, Costa Brava, Lebanon, which premiered in the official section at this year's Venice Film Festival. Libertad, her directorial debut, premiered at Critics' Week at Cannes and opened the oficial competitive section at SEMINCI.