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Movie Church: Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

Movie Church: Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

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  • Runtime: 93 minutes
  • Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Country: Germany
  • Year: 1974
  • Film

Movie Church: Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

Here at CULTPLEX we've long regarded movie-going as a religious experience and the cinema as a sacred temple of worship. Week in, week out people don their best to celebrate the gods of cinema on the big screen as they intended us to. We could never quite put a name on this but recently one of our religion's patron saints Greta Gerwig talked of the Movie Church she assembled before her most recent sermon Barbie, to prepare her disciples for telling her next great story.

 

We are excited to bring our own MOVIE CHURCH as a regular monthly slot at the cinema (on Sundays, of course). Here you will find a celebration of the very best sermons to be committed to film, that typify the power of movies and deserve to be worshipped at the altar of big screen cinema. Expect introductory words from our clergy, a church raffle for film prizes and a truly holy cinematic experience.



Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown children offer little companionship. One night she goes to a bar frequented by Arab immigrants and strikes up a friendship with middle-aged mechanic Ali. Their relationship soon develops into something more, and Emmi’s family and neighbours criticize their spontaneous marriage. Soon Emmi and Ali are forced to confront their own insecurities about their future. 

Winning the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul is regarded as one of Fassbinder’s finest films.

All of our screenings are 18+ unless otherwise stated, and the film start time is as advertised above.

Content Warning: moderate sex, nudity, language, racism
  • Runtime: 93 minutes
  • Director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Country: Germany
  • Year: 1974
  • Film

Times

Event Key:

  • SO Sold Out
  • CC Cult Club
  • MC Movie Church
  • SB Subtitled
  • QZ Quiz
  • TPP Third Party Promoters
  • SP Special Programmes
  • STAB STAB
  • IFF Interference Film Festival
  • HF GASP: Horror Festival