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Film Info

Germany 2023 | 90 min. Director: Felix Meyer-Christian
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German Documentaries

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Documentary

INDEPENDENCE

Original German, English, Portuguese, Nuer version with German, English or Portuguese subtitles available
Theatrical Release March 14, 2024

Synopsis

The Afro-German actor Helen Wendt explores her family history and her identity between the GDR, Mozambique and West Berlin. In an essayistic approach, the film also follows members of independence movements in Mozambique, South Sudan, Great Britain, Catalonia and Bavaria, asking what it means for people to fight for their freedom. What does independence truly mean and how do colonialism and racism, the causes of many independence movements, define the world to this day?
While learning more about Helen's past through encounters with her family in Berlin and in Maputo, the camera embeds within angry protests, portraits emotional reports of politicians, freedom fighters, refugees and ordinary citizens, glides along coastlines and mountains and unites the polyphonic narratives at Black Lives Matter protests in Berlin.
"Independence" takes a multilayered approach, placing individual and political experience on equal footing, combined with sequences of a choreographic installation in which Helen performs – the latter being part of the cross-platform, documentary art project "Fight (for) Independence".


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Festivals/awards

2023
Best Documentary – Film Critics' Award – 44 FF Max Ophüls Preis
Best Original Score Documentary for Marcus Thomas – 44 FF Max Ophüls Preis
Achtung Berlin FF
FILMKUSTMESSE LEIPZIG
4 LETsDOK
2024
Black History Month Cologne

Cast & Crew

Felix Meyer-Christian
 Felix Meyer-Christian
 Felix Meyer-Christian, Helen Wendt
 Philine Von Düszeln, Thomas Oswald
 Ilona Wendt
 Helen Wendt
 Stéphanie Morin
 Martin Lutz
 Marcus Thomas

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Documentary
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