We Have One Heart


Katarzyna Warzecha
Poland | 2020 | 11 min

After his mother dies, Adam comes across some letters exchanged years ago between his Polish mother and his father, a Kurd living in Iraq. This is an opportunity for him to find out more about his father, who he never knew. The juxtaposition of animated drawings and archival material takes us back forty years into the past and enables us not only to feel the emotions linking the lovers living in different parts of the world, but also to uncover an extraordinary family secret.

Credits:
Director: Katarzyna Warzecha
Screenwriter: Katarzyna Warzecha
Cinematographer: Grzegorz Hartfiel
Editor: Piotr Kremky
Animation: Yellow Tapir Studio
Sound recordist & designer: Jakub Jerszynski
Producers: Ewa Jastrzebska, Jerzy Kapuscinski
Co-producers: Stanislaw Zaborowski, Daria Maslona
Production: Munk Studio - Polish Filmmakers Association
Co-production: Silver Frame, Pomerania Film Fund

    Festivals & Awards (selected)
  • Go Short – International Short Film Festival Nijmegen, 2021
  • Palm Springs International ShortFest, 2021
  • Curtas Vila do Conde - International Film Festival, 2021
  • International Documentary, Short and Animated Film Festival Message to Man, 2021
  • Visions du Réel - International Film Festival Nyon, 2020
  • Krakow Film Festival, 2020
  • DOK Leipzig - International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated Film, 2020
  • ZINEBI - International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao, 2020