The questioning, drama, and emotional intensity of guilt have been present in culture since at least antiquity, but each subsequent era endowed it with its own meanings. Moreso, this already complicated feeling, while mutating through the reflection of modernity, still keeps the same primal, existential qualities that made it one of the most important, unsolvable problems in the history of human civilization.
Cinema is, of course, much younger – by the time it was invented, humanity was already overwhelmed by the drama of guilt for a long, long time. Cinema picked up this bug almost immediately.
Am I Guilty, the fifth edition of LEFFEST’s thematic retrospective cycles, is also focused on this undoubtedly topical emotion. Is the feeling of guilt born of a betrayal of our own desires? Or of a gap between social expectations and our will? Does the impossibility to act out of our free will absolve us from guilt? Is it possible to find individual redemption when a terrible historical context demands collective responsibility?
FILMS
November 10, 4pm, Medeia Nimas Cinema
Through a Glass Darkly (1961), by Ingmar Bergman
November 11, 1pm, Medeia Nimas
Cinema
Labyrinth of Cinema (2019), by Nobuhiko Obayashi
November 15, 1pm, Medeia Nimas Cinema
Finding Christa (1991), by Camille Billops and James Hatch
Mein Bruder, We’ll Meet Again (2005), by Thomas Heise
November 16, 12pm, Medeia Nimas Cinema
Wundkanal (1984), by Thomas Harlan
November 16, 2:30pm, Medeia Nimas Cinema
Our Nazi (1984), by Robert Kramer
November 16, 5pm, Medeia Nimas Cinema
Uptight (1984), by Jules Dassin
November 17, 2:30pm, Medeia Nimas Cinema
Funeral Parade of Roses (1969), by Toshio Matsumoto
Wanda (1970), by Barbara Loden