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Liberty!

View on the Pragda STREAM site

Within the walls of Brazilian prisons, men and women reflect on the transformative impact of literature in their lives. Their narratives are interwoven with the voices of legal operators, magistrates, teachers, and reading mediators, who expose the failures of the prison system while exalting the subversive power of literature as an instrument of change.

Directed by Débora Gobitta, Liberty! highlights prison sentence reduction through reading programs—initiatives that, although still incipient, carry the potential to reimagine a future for the world’s third-largest prison population. The film illuminates these actions as concrete examples of harm reduction, promoting literature as a tool for social transformation.