ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL (2K Restoration)

Emmi, a 60-year-old cleaning woman, falls in love with and marries Ali, a much younger Moroccan guest worker. Emmi’s family and neighbours disapprove of their relationship until they realise they can profit from it. But the pressure is too much for both of them. As the director, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, said, "it’s a film about an impossible love which is nonetheless possible”.

Dir. Rainer Werner FASSBINDER

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If Fassbinder was seventies’ Douglas Sirk, he was much more than that. A “Renaissance man”, one might say today. In Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, he remakes one of Sirk’s most sublime melodramas: All That Heaven Allows. The tragedy that tinted Sirk’s supreme romantic film bleeds out of Fassbinder’s film like from an unstoppable wound. And we cannot help to masochistically crying, delighted by the harsh Teutonic romantic suffering that sweeps away Birgitte Mira and El Hedi ben Salem - the most beautiful of all amorous couples -, taking us blindly and definitely with them.

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João Pedro RODRIGUES, João Rui GUERRA DA MATA

João Pedro RODRIGUES is an internationally renowned Portuguese filmmaker known for exploring gender and human desire through diverse cinematic styles. His films have premiered and won awards at major festivals, including Cannes, Venice, Locarno, Toronto, and Berlin.

João Rui GUERRA DA MATA nasceu em Moçambique e cresceu em Macau. Trabalha no cinema desde 1995 como director de arte, designer de produção e realizador. Colaborador próximo de João Pedro Rodrigues, codirigiu A Última Vez Que Vi Macau, que recebeu uma menção especial no Festival de Cinema de Locarno.