Free Subject

Free Subject

2018 · 146 min · ★ 4.7 · Drama

Iris, a teacher in her early forties who works at a Fine Arts School, assigns to her students an exercise on a Free Subject. It is a time when social behaviours and values are being called into question. The 20-year-old students are thrilled at the idea of being free to choose their own subjects. They create an “imagination factory” that has no limits. After finding Iris’s lost cell phone, provocative Yorgos, bases his Free Subject on his fictitious recreation of his teacher’s life. Free Subject deals with the limits of individual freedom in contemporary Western societies.

Directed by Stella Theodoraki · Written by Stella Theodoraki

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Theodora Tzimou Iris
Dimitris Kitsos Giorgos
Laurent Sauvage French Man
Antonis Karistinos Theios Katias Giatros
Lazaros Georgakopoulos Proedros
Martha Lambiri-Fedorów Nadia
Konstantinos Elmatzioglou Giannis
Kostas Laskos Pappous
Panos Kougias Vasilis
Fragiski Moustaki Dafni
Natalia Riga Katia
Sofia Seirli Kyria Geitonissa

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