Three Conversations on Life
This short documentary is conversation between mother and daughter. Mother – 66 years old, doctor, devout and practicing Catholic. Daughter – 35 years old, atheist, her two kids are borne thanks to in vitro. Her mother loves grandsons but at the same time she doesn’t accept the method. During a difficult and emotional conversation at the kitchen table they confront their views, talk about the past and the future. Daughter has a grudge against her mother about the lack of support during difficult process of infertility treatment. She worries how her mother’s intolerance would influence on her children in the future. They are discussing about influence of Church on mother views. Is the mother would prefer that the daughter she adopted children instead attempt in vitro? Should they tell kids about in vitro? How to talk about it?
2017 “Go Short” Film Festival, Nijmegen; won: Special Mention in documentary film category
2017 FebioFest, Bratislava; won: Special Mention
2017 National Competition of Independent Films OKFA, Konin; won: Grand Prix
2017 International Film Festival “Zoom Zbliżenia”- documentary competition; won: Honorable mention
2017 International Short Film Festival “żubrOFFka”, Białystok – Polish Competition; won: -I Prize
2016 International Film Festival “Off Cinema”, Poznań – Honorable mention
2016 Koszalin Festival of Film Debuts “The Young and the Film”; won: Journalists’ Award