TITLE: Janka
DIRECTOR: Adela Kaczmarek
YEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2018
COUNTRY OF PRODUCTION: Poland
DURATION: 50 min.
Is life a collection of accidental events that define you or is there some driving force behind everything? The film asks this question accompanying a girl with polio and watching her growing up to an exceptional person. ”Janka” is an intimate portrait of Janina Ochojska – founder of the Polish Humanitarian Action. Animation interlines with the document, the past with the present. Childchood determined by a serious illness leads the heroine to a unique approach to life.