“You bet on someone in the beginning of the process and then you wait and see what life does with them.” This is how Czech director Helena Trestikova explains her long-term documentaries. Following on from the European Film Academy Award winning RENE (2008), Trestikova brings us KATKA – 14 years in the life of a drug addict. KATKA is an extraordinarily raw and uncensored character portrait of a troubled young woman living on the edge of human existence, desperately searching for love and salvation. Will she find it in the rehab? Will she find it in the arms of the man she loves? Or in the first cry of her long-desired baby? Tagging along with her through the back streets and squalors of Prague, Trestikova gets deep under the skin of a person most of us would cross the road to avoid, and shows us Katka’s profoundly human face. You might be angry with Katka, or your heart may go out to her. One thing is certain – you will never forget her.
For Sama
2019
8.3/10
Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession
2004
7.1/10
Room 237
2012
6.1/10
The Kid Stays in the Picture
2002
6.6/10
Belushi
2020
7.0/10
Finders Keepers
2015
6.5/10
Disclosure
2020
7.8/10
78/52
2017
7.2/10
QT8: The First Eight
2019
7.2/10
Night Will Fall
2014
7.6/10
Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind
2018
7.9/10
Welcome to Chechnya
2020
6.9/10
9to5: Days in Porn
2008
5.8/10
Inside Deep Throat
2005
6.4/10
One Child Nation
2019
7.2/10
Facing Ali
2009
7.3/10
One More Time with Feeling
2016
7.9/10
Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain
2021
7.0/10
Dig!
2004
6.7/10
Matangi / Maya / M.I.A.
2018
7.7/10
Cartoonists: Footsoldiers of Democracy
2014
5.1/10
