Premiere of the documentary APNEA, on World Sleep Day

 

 

APNEA is a documentary created within the research for the project To Sleep or Not to Sleep?, which began in 2018 and is the result of the synergy of Marionet and CNC. It will have its full premiere on the 17th of March, at 9:30 pm, at the Casa do Cinema in Coimbra. It will be followed by a conversation with patients, artists and health professionals.

 

During the summer of 2021, we followed for a few weeks the activity of the Sleep Medicine Centre of the Coimbra Hospital and University Centre (CHUC) and interviewed a number of patients and health professionals, in order to create a play about this disease, which premiered on World Sleep Day in March 2022

 

This project has led to the performances Event of the Unknown, at the European Researchers’ Night (2018), The Dream Machine, on World Sleep Day (2019), a scientific-theatrical performance with the same name in 2020 and, in 2022, Morpheus and Apnea, a show presented at the Convento São Francisco, on World Sleep Day.

 

Five years later, we round off this project with APNEA, a documentary shot by Laetitia Morais and directed by Mário Montenegro, which aims to give an insight into those who directly or indirectly live with obstructive sleep apnea on a daily basis.

 

It’s a simple and honest first-person testimony, which provides a very clear view of the causes, the consequences and the treatment for those who sleep with the disease.

 

The screening of the documentary will be on March 17th, World Sleep Day, at the Casa do Cinema in Coimbra, followed by a conversation with patients, artists and health professionals.

 

 

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This is a project by Marionet, CNC UC and CEIS20. With the support of: Direção-Geral das Artes, Casa do Cinema de Coimbra, Município de Coimbra, Prémio de Promoção da Cultura Científica 2022 da Universidade de Coimbra, Associação Portuguesa do Sono e CHUC.