Holding Your Breath
Director: Katarzyna Sikorska
Screenwriter: Katarzyna Sikorska
Director of photography: Arkadiusz Powałka
Editor: Aneta Bochnacka, Katarzyna Sikorska
Sound: Mikołaj Sosnowski
Composer: Aleksander Żurowski
Production manager: Barbara Owsińska
Artistic supervisor: Andrzej Fidyk, Marcin Koszałka
Year of production: 2021
Running time: 14'
Wojtek is an S11 class swimmer, a Paralympic silver medalist, and European and World Champion. He was meant to be the first blind freediver in Poland. However the pandemic prevents him from finishing his course in single breath diving, and competing in the Olympics and other championships. This causes him to reconsider his carrier in sports.
Festival screenings of the film:
13. Solanin Film Festival, Nowa Sól, Poland, 2021 – in competition
International Film School Festival Tetouan, Morocco, 2021 – screening
The Polish Sports Film Festival, Zakopane, Poland, 2021 – Distinction "Silver Mammoth"
4. Meihodo International Youth Visual Media Festival, Japan, 2022 - in competition
LJMU MA Short Film Festival, Liverpool, United Kingdom, 2022 - in competition
7. Golden Baklava International Student Film Festival, Gaziantep, Turkey, 2022 - in competition
5. Polish Film Festival Vistula in Kyrgyzstan, 2022 – screening
10. Polish Film Festival Vistula in Tajikistan, Dushanbe, 2022 - screening
Bistre Reke Short Documentary Film Festival, Temska, Serbia, 2022 - in competition
13. Iran International Sport Film Festival, Tehran, Iran, 2022 - Best Directing Short Documentary
19. European Film Festival Integration You and Me, Koszalin, Poland, 2022 – in competition
7. Lower Silesia Film Festival "Złoty Samorodek", Złotoryja, Poland, 2022 - in competition
20. Opolskie Lamy Film Festival, Opole, Poland, 2022 – in competition
Monstrale International Short Film Festival, Halle (Saale), Germany, 2022 - in competition
29. Ann Arbor Polish Film Festival, Ann Arbor, United States, 2022 - in competition
Student World Impact Film Festival (SWIFF), United States, 2022 - in competition
Ekurhuleni International Film Festival-EIFF 22, Germiston, South Africa, 2022 - in competition
8. Play Poland Film Festival, United Kingdom, 2022 - screening
3. Polish Film Festival Vistula in South Korea, 2022 – screening
2. Polish Film Festival Vistula in Vietnam, 2022 – screening
