LIBERTÉ Director Q&A | 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 period-piece provocation, the feature-film component of a tripartite project that began as a theatre play at the Volksbühne in Berlin, then a two-screen 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