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154 siting futurity it” (Ludewig 2014, 389). As Ludewig notes, since 1988 there has been a film festival held annually in Freistadt, Austria, dedicated to “Der neue Heimatfilm” [the new Heimatfilm], which includes films from around the world “in a variety of contexts, genres, and styles” and conceptualizes Heimat as “a lifelong personal quest that unites people from all parts of the globe” (Ludewig 2014, 389). There can be no mistaking Weingart ner’s answer to the question of “where one feels at home with oneself and the world” (ibid., 436). His distain of affective attachments to prop- erty rather than people radiates from the image of the pyrami- dal furniture construction that one of the families the edukators have visited returns home to find, which contrasts with the sim- ple construction the protagonist of Die Summe meiner einzelnen Teile erects for himself and his young friend in the woods and with the campervan the pair share in 303. Weingart ner has made clear in interviews how highly he values the ability to share any kind of space: Man hat den Individualismus als Folge auf zwei Schocks ge- predigt. Das Kooperative hat in den letzten 70 Jahren durch den Nationalsozialismus, der ja eine Art Massenbewegung des Bösen war, einen schlechten Ruf bekommen — und dann noch einmal durch den Kommunismus, der auch völ- lig ausgeartet ist. Jetzt kommen wir langsam drauf, dass eine Menschheit aus acht Milliarden Individualisten nicht funk- tioniert. Der Nummer-eins-Glücksfaktor, wie man aus der Forschung weiß, ist soziale Nähe. Happiness is only real, when shared. Das ist ein Satz aus dem Film “Into the Wild”, der einer meiner Vorbilder für meinen Film war. [One began preaching individualism as a consequence of two shocks. Cooperation got a bad rap in the last 70 years through national socialism, which was a kind of mass move- ment of evil, and then again through communism, which also got completely out of hand. Now we’re slowly starting to realize that a human society consisting of eight billion in- dividualists doesn’t work. As one knows from research, the