A 44-minute Finnish fever dream where art eats its young.
Theater students rehearse their own play, "Freedom," and become entangled in the depths of the play's themes in their personal lives.
Direction
Kuusi blurs rehearsal and reality until you can't breathe.
Acting
Haavisto's hair matches her unraveling—red, raw, relentless.
Director
Janne Kuusi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Renny Harlin—yes, THAT Renny who directed Die Hard 2 and Cutthroat Island—was still a film student here, playing a cop while the real chaos happened off-screen.
Made during Finland's 'new wave' of state-funded student films, when theatrical minimalism was rebellion against commercial cinema's bloated excess.
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