Catalan director Clara Roquet’s teenage female friendship drama “Libertad” and Ferit Karahan’s social drama “Brother’s Keeper,” about Kurdish kids living in fear at a Turkish boarding school, won the ...

film profile] by Jaime Rosales, which took part in Cannes three years ago. The first-time director now comes to this year’s edition (in the Critics’ Week) with a movie whose title (lit. “Freedom”) is ...

Roquet had already made the leap to directing with a couple of forays into television and two short films, Les bones nenes and El adiós. The latter’s plot is strongly connected to that of Libertad, as ...