Wednesday 19. 05. 2010
19:00 - 19:57
Café 7*Stern

MAY I ENTER

(Directed by Kostana Banovic, Brasil 2009, 57 min., Portuguese with English subtitles)

‘May I Enter?’ is an art documentary in which the Brazilian belief Candomblé is investigated and in fact experienced. This originally West-African belief reveals a ‘different’ attitude towards reality and other borders of acceptance and communication than those current in the ‘Western society’.
The main characteristics are the belief in another, parallel world of spirits and an established contact with spirits through singing, dance, music and oblation. This contact takes shape in a possession of one of the attendants by a spirit during a Candomblé ceremony.