LIBERTÉ Director QA, TIFF 2019

Following his instant cult classic La Mort de Louis XIV (Wavelengths 2016), visionary Catalan filmmaker and artist Albert Serra returns to the Festival with an even greater periodpiece provocation, the featurefilm component of a tripartite project that began as a theatre play at the Volksbühne in Berlin, then a twoscreen installation at the Reina Sofia in Madrid. Trading the Sun King s palatial bedchamber for a nondescript forest clearing somewhere between Potsdam and Berlin, Liberté follows an ensemble