Am I Really Free?
What does freedom mean when the systems built to protect you become the thing you survive?
Am I Really Free? is a first-person documentary built from a four-year personal archive — over 1,300 clips, 33 hours 38 minutes of 4K footage filmed across Oslo, London, Amsterdam and Kigali. It follows one question through institutions, borders and the long road back: what does freedom actually mean when the systems meant to protect you become the thing you have to survive?
Not a case file. A reckoning — told in the first person, on the record, and on the maker's own terms.
- Title — Am I Really Free? (working title)
- Director — Joshua Arthur
- Production — Lucid Dreams Productions
- Format — Feature documentary · 4K · 25p
- Archive — 1,300+ clips · 33h 38min
- Territories filmed — UK · Norway · Netherlands · Rwanda
- Co-release partner — Kwadjo Tweneboa, UK housing activist
- Release — 1 October 2026
- Festival circuit — submissions in progress
Distribution and streaming platforms will be announced ahead of the 1 October 2026 premiere. Register your interest and you'll hear the moment it goes live.
- Premiere — 1 October 2026
- Platforms — to be announced
- Screenings — festival circuit, submissions in progress
The film is built on a cipher — a chosen way of reading words and sound. Three doors into it. Each is a creative methodology, never a cosmic claim.