If We Knew (0+)
the Netherlands, 2007, colour, 78 min.
Director: Petra Lataster-Czisch and Peter Lataster
Director: Petra Lataster-Czisch and Peter Lataster
«If We Knew» is a lyrical and passionate documentary about paediatricians who work in an intensive-care unit for premature newborns at Groningen's University Hospital. A film essay about the compassion needed to heal the sick and also occasionally needed to hasten the death of a sick child who is suffering unbearably and without hope.
Petra Lataster-Czisch and Peter Lataster
Petra Lataster-Czisch and Peter Lataster
have formed a filming partnership since 1989. They have made several feature documentaries, shorts and dance films. In 2001 they started a production company, Lataster&Films.
FILMOGRAPHY
«The Enchantment», 1991; «Tales of a River», 1994; «Diogenes», 1998; «River of time», 1999; «Fragile Happines», 2001; «Dreamland GDP», 2003; «Birth-Day», 2004; «This will never go away», «Ojuna», 2005; «I like to touch everything», 2006; «If We Knew», 2007.
the Netherlands, 2007, colour, 78 min.
Director: Petra Lataster-Czisch and Peter Lataster
Director: Petra Lataster-Czisch and Peter Lataster
«If We Knew» is a lyrical and passionate documentary about paediatricians who work in an intensive-care unit for premature newborns at Groningen's University Hospital. A film essay about the compassion needed to heal the sick and also occasionally needed to hasten the death of a sick child who is suffering unbearably and without hope.