Liberdade

Portugal, Angola

2011

17 Min

Color

English, Portuguese, Mandarin

Currently 3.1/5 Stars.
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DIR Gabriel Abrantes, Benjamin Crotty

PROD Zé dos Bois, Natxo Checa, Gabriel Abrantes

SCR Gabriel Abrantes, Benjamin Crotty

CAST Betty Meixue, Wilson Teixeira, Dadi, Gu Hong Zhen, Joelson Da Silva, Li Kun Qiong, Márcio Marcelino, Mu Yuan Shuai, Orlando Sérgio, Ricardo Matias, Wang Tian Guo, Zhou Jian

ED Gabriel Abrantes, Benjamin Crotty

SOUND Oswald Juliana

Locarno (Pardi di domani): Film und Video Untertitelung Prize, London (Experimenta)

Synopsis

Luanda, Angola. Two young lovers, Liberdade, an Angolan boy, and his Chinese girlfriend, Betty, navigate through the complications of their burgeoning identities. Traveling across the stunning urban and natural landscapes of Angola, the two kids go from a Chinese karaoke in Shanghai Bahia to the ship graveyard at Santiago beach. During their exploration, Liberdade and Betty struggle to forge the consciousness of their race. –Locarno Film Festival

Director

Gabriel Abrantes

Gabriel Abrantes was born in North Carolina in 1984. In 2008, his works, Olympia I/II were chosen for the IndieLisboa Festival, where in 2009 he also won the New Talent Fnac Award with Visionary Iraq. He lives and works in Lisbon, where he is preparing his first feature film, about Chinese immigration in Angola, and a short soon to be filmed in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. A History of Mutual Respect was presented at Locarno in 2010 and won the Pardino d’oro of the Concorso internazionale Pardi di domani. –Locarno Film Festival