OUR CURSE

POLISH TITLE: NASZA KLĄTWA

REPRESENTED BY KFF

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:
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.

AT FESTIVALS:
AWARDS AT POLISH FESTIVALS:

 - 6. Short Waves Festival - Short Waves Grand Prix Award

- Żubrowffka 2013 - Best Documentary

- 13th IFF T-Mobile New Horizons - Special Mention