BFK | 12.04.2023 | Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul illuminates the radical potential of love. In the film, the lonely cleaner Emmi meets the Moroccan immigrant Ali, and their friendship soon turns into something more. As their relationship develops, they face increasing scrutiny and prejudice from the society surrounding them. Their age difference and Ali's ethnicity causes constant backlash, even from their closest relations. Will the relationship survive? Rainer Werner Fassbinder's film is moving, intimate, and quietly revolutionary.