Katka

The documentary follows fourteen years in the life of a woman called Katka. Katka is addicted to drugs, and the film records her at intervals across that time. It is a life lived at the edge of Prague: attempts at treatment, relationships, and hopes that come and go. She wants a child, and that wish takes an important place in the account. The director Helena Třeštíková is known for documentaries made over long spans. Her own description of the method is this: you bet on someone at the beginning, then you wait to see what life does with them. She had made Rene the same way before this. The film shows Katka as a person and not as a case. The ninety minute Czech documentary was completed in 2010.