Rémi Mazet

Today, Arvi, a young Estonian, is eighteen years old. As is the custom, his brother takes him to celebrate the transition to adulthood. Despite of the hold of his elder, this day appears to decisive for him.

Seven directors develop their own scripts and come to Estonia to make their films with local cast and crew. Libertade is a feature length film project, comprising of seven short films directed by renowned film-makers from Georgia, Russia, Switzerland, Estonia and France. They all take their unique look into questions about our roots and identity, our choices and our search for freedom and its consequences. —Katerina Monastyrskaya

Approaching the rainy season, Yaadikoone, a nine-year-old boy, accidentally brokes his house's roof with his soccer ball. Yaadi decides to fix himself this damned roof.

Bella, a 30-year-old Guinean cabaret singer, lives a miserable, dangerous life as a prostitute in Dakar. Though she longs for escape, a gang of pimps, led by Kèba, treat her like property and make sure she keeps in her place. Her only hope is the thought of earning enough money to escape and reunite with her daughter, who she gave up at birth at age 15—a desperate act that haunts Bella’s nightmares and fills her with guilt. While fleeing an angry client, she meets Yélo, a Guinean worker for the United Nations, who happens to be passing through Dakar. Instantly smitten, Yélo agrees to help Bella, and so begins an epic journey of redemption, from Guinea to Paris. But can the young couple escape the clutches of the menacing Kèba?

Growing up in the Moroccan village of Tazzeka, Elias learned the secrets of traditional Moroccan cuisine from his grandmother who raised him. Years later, meeting a top Paris chef and a young woman named Salma inspires him to leave home. In Paris, Elias faces unstable work and financial hardship as an undocumented immigrant. But he also finds friendship with Souleymane, who helps revive his passion for cooking.

Dakar, Senegal. Ousmane, a 7 year old child, begs in the streets. He decides to write a letter to Santa Claus.

Coelio desperately tries to win the heart of Marianne, the wife of Judge Claudio. On a bridge, he wants to commit suicide, but he runs into his friend Octave, who is returning from a carnival - drunk as usual. Octave agrees to act as matchmaker for Coelio.

Aurélie is a tormented teenager. Unwillingly, she has to spend her holidays with her father recently settled on the island of Mayotte. This experience turns out to be an unexpected initiatory journey that will make her grow up.