About the Film
The Afro-German actor Helen Wendt takes the audience on a journey through independence movements in Mozambique, South Sudan, Great Britain, Catalonia and Bavaria, while fighting for her individual independence and identity within the systemic racist structures in her own life.
What does independence mean today? Do we want to fight for or against it? And how do colonialism and racism, the causes of many independence movements, continue to define us until now?
The camera embeds within angry protests, portraits emotional reports of politicians, freedom fighters, refugees and ordinary citizens, glides through meditative imagery of coastlines and mountains and unites the polyphonic narratives at recent Black Lives Matter rallies in Berlin.Read more