Anny

Czech Republic2021documentary66'Fokus na Czechy (2022)

Family relations, a struggle with an illness and an attempt to re-start her personal life, performances with a theatre group made of sexual workers, activism and a hearty portion of enthusiasm against all odds make a film portrait of Anna, who works in a public toilet during the day and in the street at night. The viewer meets her when she is 47 and then the camera accompanies her for the next 16 years. Helena Třeštíková, a laureate of Krakow’s Dragon of Dragons in 2012, is faithful to her method. For many years she follows her characters with a camera so that eventually she can synthesise their lives in the form of fascinating films.