OUR CURSE
POLISH TITLE: NASZA KLĄTWA
The film is a personal statement of the director and his wife, who have to deal with a very rare and incurable disease of their newborn child – the Ondine’s Curse (also known as CCHS, congenital central hypoventilation syndrome). People affected with this disease stop breathing during sleep and require lifetime mechanical ventilation on a ventilator. The film shows the first few months of living together after the diagnosis. At the beginning, the child is still in hospital, but soon he comes home, with all his medical equipment. The film shows the process of taming the fear by the parents and gradually adopting to the new situation.
- GENRE:
- documentary
- COUNTRY:
- Poland
- RUNNING TIME:
- 30'
- YEAR:
- 2013
- DIRECTING:
- Tomasz Śliwiński
- SCRIPT:
- Tomasz Śliwiński
- DOP:
- Tomasz Śliwiński, Magda Hueckel
- EDITOR:
- Tomasz Śliwiński, Justyna Król
- PRODUCTION:
- Warszawska Szkoła Filmowa
Tomasz Śliwiński »
Writer and director based in Warsaw. He is a graduate of Warsaw Film School and Wajda School of Film Directing in Warsaw. His previous short film “Our Curse” (2013) has been awarded at many international film festivals and was nominated for an Oscar Academy Award 2015 in the field of Documentary Short Subject.
- 29th Warsaw Film Festival, Poland, 2013 (screening)
- International Film Festival Watch Docs - Human Rights in Film , 2013 (screening)
- Documentarist, Turkey, 2014 (screening)
- 28th Pärnu International Documentary and Antropological FF, Estonia, 2014 (screening)
- International Bosphorus Film Festival 2014, Turkey, 2014 (screening)
- Guanajuato International FF, Mexico, 2015 (screening)
- 12th Jameson CineFest Miskolc IFF, Hungary, 2015 (screening)
- In Te Cinema Festival, Italy, 2015 (screening)
- IDFF "Flahertiana", Russia, 2015 (screening)
- Stockfish Film Festival, Iceland, 2016 (screening)
- 22nd International Short Film Week Regensburg, Germany, 2016 (screening)
- Bogotá Short Film Festival BOGOshorts, Colombia, 2017 (screening)
- Film Festival Film Night at the Castle 2018, Slovakia, 2018 (screening)
- 42nd Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival, France, 2020 (screening)
- 66th Locarno Film Festival, Switzerland, 2013 (competition)
- IDFA - International Documentary Festival Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2013 (Nomination for IDFA Award)
- One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Czech Republic, 2014 (competition)
- 19th Vilnius International Film Festival, Lithuania, 2014 (competition)
- 23rd Aspen Shorts Fest, USA, 2014 (Best Documentary Award)
- Indielisboa, Portugal, 2014 (Audience Award)
- DOXA - Documentary Film Festival, Canada, 2014 (competition)
- Doc/Fest Sheffield, UK, 2014 (Audience Award, Student Doc Award)
- AFI Docs, USA, 2014 (competition)
- Monterrey International FF, Mexico, 2014 (Best International Short Documentary)
- 11th Jameson CineFest Miskolc International Film Festival, Hungary, 2014 (competition)
- Look& Roll Film Festival, Switzerland, 2014 (Denk an mich Foundation Award)
- 22nd Raindance Film Fesival, UK, 2014 (Best Documentary Short)
- CNEX Documentary Film Festival , Taiwan, 2014 (competition)
- Astra Film Festival 2014, Romania, 2014 (competition)
- Chagrin Documentary Film Festival, USA, 2014 (Best Student Film)
- 9th Sapporo International Short Film Festival and Market, Japan, 2014 (Best Documentary)
- IndieCork Festival, Ireland, 2014 (Special Mention)
- Woodstock Film Festival, USA, 2014 (The Diane Seligman Award for Best Short Documentary)
- Heartland Film Festival, USA, 2014 (Jimmy Stewart Memorial Crystal Heart Award)
- 7th Annual Imagine Science Film Festival, USA, 2014 (Nature Scientific Merit Award)
- VERZIO Documentary Film Festival, Hungary, 2014 (competition)
- Sleepwalkers International Film Festival 2014, Estonia, 2014 (Special Mention)
- 12th Bogota International Short Film Festival, Colombia, 2014 (Best International Short Documentary)
- The Other Film Festival, USA, 2014 (competition)
- 12th International Festival Signes de Nuit, France, 2014 (competition)
- 11th Talca International Short Film Festival, Chile, 2015 (competition)
- Irvine International Film Festival, USA, 2015 (Best College/University Documentary )
- 11th annual Boulder International Film Festival, USA, 2015 (Best Short Documentary)
- 39th Cleveland International Film Festival, USA, 2015 (competition)
- 14th Ashland Independent Film Festival, USA, 2015 (competition)
- Newport Beach Film Festival 2015, USA, 2015 (competition)
- West Chester Film Festival, USA, 2015 (competition)
- International Human Rights Film Festival In Albania, 2015 (competition)
- Crested Butte Film Festival, USA, 2015 (Best Short Documentary)
- 8th CinEast Central and Eastern European Film Festival, Luxembourg, 2015 (competition)
- THESS International Short Film Festival, Greece, 2015 (Cinematic Achievement Award)
- 6. Short Waves Festival - Short Waves Grand Prix Award
- Żubrowffka 2013 - Best Documentary
- 13th IFF T-Mobile New Horizons - Special Mention