Double Freedom

Twenty-five years after his debut, La Libertad (also part of the festival’s programme), Argentine director Lisandro Alonso returns to and expands upon that remarkable first feature with an unexpected sequel of sorts. Double Freedom once again follows Misael (Misael Saavedra), a taciturn woodcutter living in Argentina’s lowland pampas, whose quiet routine is disrupted when his mentally unstable sister (Catalina Saavedra) is released from a care facility and he must take her in. With its patient observation of labour and everyday life, Alonso’s latest film explores the limits of personal freedom and the uneasy space between fiction and lived experience.

The film’s companion piece, La Libertad, is also part of the festival programme. Screening: 10.31 – 15:30

Cannes Film Festival 2026 – Directors' Fortnight, World Premiere

Lisandro Alonso is one of the defining figures of contemporary Argentine cinema. His films observe the landscape, labour and the most elemental forms of human existence through an exceptionally restrained, meditative approach. His first feature, La libertad (2001), followed the daily life of a solitary woodcutter in the Argentine pampas; twenty-five years later, Double Freedom returns to the same world and the same protagonist. Alonso’s films continually move between documentary observation and fiction, while landscape and physical labour become almost autonomous cinematic experiences.

La libertad (2001)
Los muertos (2004)
Liverpool (2008)
Jauja (2014)
Eureka (2023)

Original title: La libertad doble
Director: Lisandro Alonso
Cast: Misael Saavedra, Catalina Saavedra, Adrián Fondari, Alcides Fink, Laura López Moyano, Alberto Villarroel, Hugo Fabián Sanchez, Iván Carra, Ariel Ali, Quiroz Sordo
Cinematography: Cobi Migliora
Screenwriter: Lisandro Alonso
Producers: Augusto Matte, Fernando Bascuñán, Gilles Chanial, Michael Weber, Viola Fügen, Hernán Musaluppi, Diego Robino, Denise Ping Lee, Roberto Minervini, Kyle Stroud, Lisandro Alonso, Darren Strowger
Executive Producers: Paloma Torras, Lilia Scenna, Fernando Fuentes, Susan Simnett
Editor: Catalina Marín Duarte
Music: Peter Rosenthal
Production Designer: Pascual Mena
Sound: Santiago Fumagalli, Catriel Vildosola, Roberto Espinoza
Hungarian Distributor: –
Colour: Colour
Run Time: 100 mins

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