The Access to the World


(BALi, KulturBahnhof Kassel)

Breathe

Camila, a Colombian visual artist, begins to suffer anxiety attacks during the quarantine days due to the Covid-19 pandemic. She has been unable to return to her country due to the closed borders between France and Colombia. With the help of her husband Adrien, Camila must face her vulnerability and her deepest fears, if she wants to survive the pandemic. A fight in which her art will be the best medicine.… >>>

  • Duration: 25 Min.
  • Premiere: World Premiere
    • Director: Camila Rodriguez Triana

    Some Kind of Intimacy

    The filmmaker tries to communicate with the sheep living where his parents are buried.… >>>

    • Duration: 6 Min.
  • Premiere: German Premiere
    • Director: Toby Bull

    Paper Swallows Rock

    When Vanessa is injured during the 2015 Paris terrorist attacks, she begins a research into the proxy conflict in Afghanistan in the 80s. She begins to blend the two realities as she goes through a state sponsored memory study in France using scientific neurological methods on post-traumatic stress disorder (PSTD). Who is the victim or who is the enemy becomes a matter of time and place, and Vanessa gradually sees herself as both.… >>>

    • Duration: 17 Min.
  • Premiere: World Premiere
  • Nominated: Goldener Key
    • Director: Vanessa Gravenor

    Memories

    Years after recovering from her sickness in delusional thoughts and OCD (obsessive-compulsive disorder), Kristin Johannessen finds her old digital cameras while clearing out her childhood room. She lived there during her illness and used to record film for hours a day when she controlled her living (for example to make sure the door was locked). These films were not meant as documentation, they just served as a calming reassurance for her thoughts. She found that some films still remained on the newly found digital cameras.… >>>

    • Duration: 14 Min.
    • Director: Kristin Johannessen

    The End of Suffering (A Proposal)

    Sofia is panicky, again. The Universe decides to contact her. An other-wordly dialogue. A planet symphony for Mars, where people dream awake and fight for love.… >>>

    • Duration: 14 Min.
    • Director: Jacqueline Lentzou