20 Seconds Of Joy

Director: Jens Hoffmann
Country: Germany
Runtime: 52’ and 60’
Language: English
Year: 2007

“I don’t want to die, I want to live. I’m pretty good at running away, and this is my escape!"

This is how Karina Hollekim describes her dedication to BASE jumping, one of the few sports in the world where if you make mistakes, you get killed.
Documentary filmmaker Jens Hoffman first met the now 30-year-old Norwegian in 2002. Since then, he has been following her through her dangerous BASE-jumping career. 20 Seconds of Joy traces the story of Karina, an extreme athlete who is obsessed with the most deadly of extreme sports: BASE-jumping. The commitment to such a sport constantly challenges people's perceptions of mortality and extreme athletes' motivations.

20 Seconds of Joy is a rare opportunity to have an insight into the psychology behind those, like Karina, who takes her adrenaline rush to the limit by constantly playing with life and death, fear and self-control. It is an intimate portrait and a unique documentary of an extreme person whose reality is more captivating than any fictional story.

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