Soy libre

Selected filmography: Soy libre (2021), The Dog’s Eye (2019).

L´ACID Cannes, Brussels International Film Festival, Zurich Film Festival.

Spanish premiere

"Arnaud is my little brother.
One day I realized that he had grown up. He was born where people have no choices and he is trying to be what he should have been. Free."
Now in his adolescence, at the start of the film, Arnaud sees himself trapped in his neighbourhood of social housing, which seems to force him to resign himself to a life with no future prospects, one in which going to prison "is just another stage. I'll grow up and forget about it". But he cannot forget it: from then onwards, his goal in life is to escape from this supposed determinism and to build a different story.
Laure Portier narrates her brother's odyssey in a portrait that is in fact a double one, because it is fundamentally a film about sibling relationships, by showing their own relationship and how it affects them (bringing them together and confronting each other), because she constructs it through the game of filming themselves, seeking to create a very strong bond between them. Not only is it a film about Arnaud, but with Arnaud, and when he takes the camera in his solitary trips, Soy libre takes on a different, new flight, starting from vagrancy and taking off to a new life in which we do not know how far it will go. A direct, very lively film, with room for tenderness, violence and hope.

Miguel Zozaya