CNCI
JCC 2022

Libertad


Libertad

Clara Roquet - Spain


Synopsis

Nora, an introverted teenager from a middle-class family, comes to spend the summer with her mother, younger sister and grandmother in a villa where Rosana, a Colombian maid, also lives. The latter's daughter, Libertad, bursts in and disrupts the usual calm of the family holiday. Clara Roquet captures the emotions of a teenage girl in the throes of discovery and emancipation in a coming-of-age novel.



Film details

Type : Fiction
Duration : 104 min
Year of production : 2021
Country : Spain
Screenwriter : Clara Roquet
Editor : Ana Pfaff
Director : Clara Roquet
Production company : Avalon





Clara Roquet

Clara Roquet was born in 1988 in Vic, Spain. She started her career in film in 2014 as a co-writer of Carlos Marques-Marcet's multi-awarded film, 10,000 Km. Shortly after, in 2015, she directed her first short film El Adiós, which was screened at the Toronto Film Festival, nominated at the EFAs and won the BAFTA Students Award. Clara Roquet works with many filmmakers such as Jaime Rosales, Paula Ortiz, Isabel Coixet, Mounia Akl and Antonio Méndez Esparza.