This event is in the past.It took place on March 28, 2026 at Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.


Fassbinder turns a tidy suburb into a pressure cooker. A young mother watches her picture-perfect life dissolve into paranoia and dread, shot in blinding daylight that only sharpens the unease.
New German Cinema
Psychological drama
1970s arthouse classic
Subtitled foreign film
Tips
🎬"perfectly sculpted... a distillation of reality—a dream in which everything counts" (New York Times)
🏘️"everything is perfect for Margot, yet nothing works"
Fear of Fear
Downtown Berkeley


Fassbinder turns a tidy suburb into a pressure cooker. A young mother watches her picture-perfect life dissolve into paranoia and dread, shot in blinding daylight that only sharpens the unease.
New German Cinema
Psychological drama
1970s arthouse classic
Subtitled foreign film
Tips
🎬"perfectly sculpted... a distillation of reality—a dream in which everything counts" (New York Times)
🏘️"everything is perfect for Margot, yet nothing works"
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