GOD EXISTS, HER NAME IS PETRUNIA

Director - Teona Mitevska

Script - Teona Mitevska, Elma Tataragic

Camera - Virginie Saint-Martin

Cast - Zorica Nusheva, Labina Mitevska, Stefan Vujisic, Suad Begovski, Simeon Moni Damevski

Producers - Sébastien Delloye, Marie Dubas, Zdenka Gold, Danijel Hocevar, Elie Meirovitz, Labina Mitevska

Production - Sister and Brother Mitevski

Every January in a small town in Macedonia, the high priest throws a cross into the local waters, while hundreds of men charge for it. The one who finds the cross is believed to gain overall good fortune and prosperity. An unemployed single young woman Petrunija jumps into the water and catches the cross. In this conservative setting, her competitors feel they have every right to be furious: a woman dared to compete and achieve what they faild to achieve. Petrunia insists that she is the winner and refuses to return the cross.

AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS -

Berlin ’19 – Guild Film Prize, Prize of the Ecumenical Jury

Program

10.03.2022
CINEMA HOUSE - 20.30 часа

Teona Mitevska

Born in Skopje, Macedonia in 1974, she now lives there and in Brussels. Her first brush with film was as a child actor. She has a degree in graphic design and studied film at the Tisch School of the Arts in New York. Her short film Vetascreened in Panorama of Berlin film festifal. Her feature film Jas sum od Titov Veles, which screened at over 80 festivals worldwide and won over 20 awards, as well as The Woman Who Brushed Off Her Tears and, most recently, When the Day Had no Name have all screened at the Berlinale. She runs the Sisters and Brother Mitevski production company with her siblings Vuk and Labina.

FILMOGRAPHY

1999 Why is Betty Boop Angry – short
2000 Amer in Amerika – doc. short
2001 Veta – short
2004 How I Killed a Saint (Kako ubiv svetec)
2008 I Am From Titov Veles (Jas sum od Titov Veles)
2012 The Woman Who Brushed Off Her Tears
2014 Teresa and I – doc. series
2017 When the Day Had No Name (Koga denot nemase ime)

2019 God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunia (Gospod postoi, imeto i' e Petrunija)

GOD EXISTS, HER NAME IS PETRUNIA / GOSPOD POSTOI, IMETO I' E PETRUNIJA

North Macedonia / Belgium / France / Croatia / Slovenia, 2019, 100′, color, movie

AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS -

Program

Teona Mitevska