Mois du doc 2026 | Projection du film "Soy libre" de Laure Portier

Laure Portier films those she loves. Her second film, Soy libre, takes the form of a free-wheeling conversation with Arnaud, her younger brother. Dialogue is difficult from the start, as neither Laure nor Arnaud mince their words. These burst forth like ideas hurled in the face of the world. Little by little, a fragile, intermittent negotiation sets in. When it breaks down or when Arnaud is too far away, Laure entrusts him with a camera and incorporates Arnaud's footage into her film. When she has none, Laure sometimes asks Arnaud to draw some.

Soy libre is an epistolary novel of a new kind, in which images replace letters sent to one another. Finding one's place is a conquest everyone begins to undertake in adolescence. In Arnaud's case, his initiation into the wide world is both wild and chaotic. Arnaud is a romanesque figure in his absolute quest for freedom. His opposition to his sister as well as his flight to the ends of the earth are breaks from his past, to better be reborn anew. Finally free?

About Laure Portier

Laure Portier was born in 1983 in Deux-Sèvres. After earning a degree in Modern Literature in Toulouse and spending a year at ESAV, she entered INSAS in Brussels in the Cinematography department. She became a camera assistant and worked on fiction feature films. In 2019, she presented her first short film, DANS L’OEIL DU CHIEN, which won the Short Film Award at the Cinéma du réel festival. SOY LIBRE is her first feature film and was presented in the ACID selection at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. Numerous festival awards followed.

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