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THE FREEDOM OF FIERRO

LA LIBERTAD DE FIERRO

By Santiago ESTEINOU

Social issues - Completed 2024

Toronto - TIFF 2024

TIFF Docs

ZURICH FILM FESTIVAL 2024

Black Movie Film Festival 2024

- Year of production
- 2024
- Genres
- Social issues, Documentary
- Countries
- MEXICO, CANADA, GREECE
- Languages
- SPANISH
- Duration
- 96 mn
- Director(s)
- Santiago ESTEINOU
- Writer(s)
- Javier CAMPOS LÓPEZ, Santiago ESTEINOU
- Cast
- César \ FIERRO
- Producer(s)
- Santiago ESTEINOU, Javier CAMPOS LÓPEZ, Axel PEDRAZA, José Miguel DÍAZ SALINAS
- Synopsis
- César Fierro has just become a free man and he needs to rebuild his life after being wrongly sentenced to death in Texas. He spent most of his life in the “Polunsky Unit”, a prison that keeps human beings in complete isolation during decades and deprived of any physical contact with other human beings.
  
  Cesar and I have been pen-friends for the last 14 years. We met when I made a documentary about his very unfair case. No one ever expected that César would be released in the middle of a pandemic. Since he had no place to go, I offered him to stay with my family in Mexico City for a few weeks until the pandemic was over and he could finally go to his homeland, Ciudad Juárez, in the North of Mexico. César's arrival to Mexico City is the beginning of a journey to heal and reconstruct himself. His everyday life is constantly confronted with his own limitations, learning to use a cellphone, daring to leave his room, overcoming the anxiety of being around other people and reconnecting wit