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"Your Heart in My Brain," by male director Rosa von Praunheim, a gay activist and filmmaker, is inspired by the case of Armin Meiwes, the computer repairman who fulfilled his ultimate fantasy by finding a man who wanted to be eaten and then devouring him in an orgy of sexual fetishism.
Response from Montreal will determine whether it will be offered to the Berlin Film Festival in February, says von Praunheim, who teaches directing at the Film and Television Academy at Babelsberg in Potsdam near Berlin. Pic will not screen in the main competition but in a sidebar category.
"There are explicit scenes, but it's no horror film. You see everything, but the main point of the film is the interaction between the two men; it's more about dependency."
Meiwes, 43, has sold full media rights to his story to Hamburg's Stampfwerk, which is planning to make a doc about him.
Von Praunheim says Meiwes had initially tried to block his project because he didn't have media rights but that he got the go-ahead to continue when he explained that his film had fictional elements and was only loosely based on the Meiwes case.
His film began stirring controversy even before work began, not least because it received about e40,000 ($50,000) -- about 40% of the total budget -- in public funding from the Berlin and North Rhine-Westphalia state film foundations.
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