Juggling not one, but two current projects (the other being the Sundance Lab supported Coming to You), Kirill Mikhanovsky is at a special crux in his career after his debut Sonhos de Peixe premiered more than a dozen years ago in Cannes’ Critics Week section. Mikhanovsky’s Give Me Liberty throws a bunch of misfits together — where creed, religion, age, physical mobility and mental ability are strewn together. Among the first films to open the festival (launching the NEXT section), this Milwaukee set dramedy asks existential questions during thrill-ride segments and/or moments of reprieve. Here is world premiere Q&A footage:
Kirill Mikhanovsky’s Give Me Liberty | 2019 Sundance Film Festival
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