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Inner Worlds – Outer Worlds in the Community Cinema

From Fear Eats the Soul to locked-in syndrome

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Fear Eats the Soul

Fassbinder’s world view reflects the zeitgeist of the 1970s and his films critically address the issues of that time. His interpretations of Effi Briest and Fear Eats the Soul are revealing – almost anatomical – studies of the lead figures in the way they view and perceive their environments. Werner Herzog also captures this atmospheric intensity in his film about Kaspar Hauser The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, which preempted Margarethe von Trotta’s The German Sisters. Julian Schnabel made his debut in 1996 with a film about the American artist Basquiat. In 2007, he directed the multi-award-winning The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, based on Jean-Dominique Bauby’s autobiographical novel. Following a stroke, Bauby can only move his left eye and dictates his memoirs by blinking.

Psychology and personality studies from the perspective of European writer-directors

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Confidentially Yours

European writer-directors such as Ingmar Bergman, Luchino Visconti and François Truffaut provide viewers with a unique insight into their world and create a highly charged atmosphere of passion and feelings. Sawdust and Tinsel Poster, one of Bergman’s earlier films from the 1950s, focuses on the world of the circus, with all its emotional consequences. The circus is also the subject of Fellini’s drama La Strada. It Rains on Our Love by Bergman tells the story of a couple who, for financial reasons, have to move to the country and are treated suspiciously as outsiders. Luchino Visconti’s Bellissima from 1951 depicts the closeness of Italian society – an ambitious mother wants to get her child into the film industry to escape poverty herself. Visconti’s The Leopard and The Stranger are prime examples of how to create a stifling and oppressive atmosphere. Francois Truffaut’s films often depict the differences between appearance and reality within society. His thriller Confidentially Yours ingeniously exposes some unpleasant truths.

Perceptions of political culture from the perspective of in- and outgroups around the world

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Breathing

From Canada, Denis Villeneuve turns his attention to the Middle East. In Incendies, the children of an emigrant discover the political history of their family. Florian Cossen depicts a similar journey from Germany to Argentina in his film The Day I Was Not Born. A young woman discovers her repressed past – as a young girl, she was adopted illegally by a German couple. In XXY, Argentina’s Lucia Puenzo captures the disorientation of a teenager, who, despite having a different chromosome configuration, is trying to experience her first sexual encounters and find her identity. In Austria, a young generation of filmmakers is not afraid to address taboo subjects. In Breathing, Karl Markovics tells the story of the imprisonment of 19-year-old Roman Kogler, who is serving an eight-year sentence in a special young offenders’ institution for manslaughter. In her film It Happened Just Before, Anja Salomonowitz investigates the trafficking of women from the east. Hans Weingartner is an important director of the political, psychological and social genre. His films include The White Sound, The Edukators and, most recently, Hut in the Woods.

Atmospheric rhapsodies of images

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The Light

The Light by Philippe Lioret captures the impressive atmosphere invoked by staying in a lighthouse in the middle of the sea. Percy and Felix Adlon explore the dramatic details of musician Gustav Mahler’s overpowering love in Mahler on the Couch. In Welcome to the Sticks by Dany Boon, a French postman is relocated to the chilly north with its difficult dialect. In Ouaga Saga, Dany Kouyaté captures the essence of the place where Africans go not only to watch films: cinemas are an important meeting place in Africa, a place where you can let your emotions run free. Vera Chytilová really tests the limits in her film Daisies from the 1960s. The film was banned following the Prague Spring, as both girls Jezinka and Jarmila rampage playfully through society, leaving a trail of destruction in their wake that they themselves ultimately fall victim to.