The film’s main protagonist is a 17-year-old named Olka whose constant escapes from an orphanage land her in a correctional institution.
One day she meets a couple who live close to her former family home, and forces them to take her on a vacation. All she wants is to have her mother back.
Imielska said that her goal was to show “that it is possible to save oneself in an evil world and that to remain true to oneself is the only remedy in face of the omnipresent evil.”
All For My Mother won lead actress Zofia Domalik an award for best debut at last year’s Polish Film Festival in Gdynia.
Fifty-year-old Imielska studied film and television directing at the Silesian University in Katowice, southern Poland.
She is known primarily for her documentaries focusing on World War II and the Holocaust.
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