Her Own Truth

Agnieszka
Kruczek

Agnieszka Kruczek is a graduate of Hochschule Hannover, majoring in Multimedia Design in Hannover (diploma 2005) and the Film Academy in Ludwigsburg, majoring in animation (diploma 2008), where she produced the film "War", which was shown at many international festivals, won the Art Directors Award and was screened as a spot by UNICEF. She is an Erasmus scholarship holder in the field of animation at the Academy of Fine Arts in Kraków (2003), a scholarship holder at the Berlinale Talentcampus and the European Animation Exchange Forum, where she won the Defa Promotion Prize (2006). While studying in Hannover, she worked on the 3D feature film "Back to Gaya" for Ambient Entertainment. Since 2006, she has been working as a director of animation, advertising, music videos and also video installations. He has cooperated with TV stations: ARTE, ZDF, 3SAT, PRO 7, as well as many production and advertising agencies. Her video installations have been shown in museum exhibitions in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In addition to animation, she produced with the company cats'n'dogz, of which she is also a partner, the Lucy&Pogo app for children. Lucy&Pogo was created on the basis of Paweł Pawlak's book "The Kitten Who Wagged His Tail". The app was funded by Medienboard Berlin/Brandenburg and won the Golden Award at the Digital Ehon Awards in Tokyo (2017) and was nominated for the Bologna Ragazzi Digital Award, Italy.

After years of emigration, a granddaughter longs to go home to see her beloved grandmother again.

This film screens as part of the programEureka and Other Animations.