In a small town in North Macedonia, the blessing of the waters taking place on Epiphany Day holds great value within the local community, as the person who retrieves the cross is believed to gain good fortune and prosperity. Petrunya, a single unemployed woman, dives into the water and catches the cross, infuriating her male competitors who disguise their feeling of inferiority under a strait-laced accusation of impiety. Petrunya will stand her ground, refusing to return the cross. A woman who fights back patriarchal stereotypes and conservative morals, in a world of inequality and injustice.
God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya
Gospod postoi, imeto i' e Petrunija
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- Direction: Teona Strugar Mitevska
- Script: Elma Tataragić, Teona Strugar Mitevska
- Cinematography: Virginie Saint Martin
- Editing: Marie-Hélène Dozo
- Sound: Hrvoje Petek
- Music: Olivier Samouillan
- Actors: Zorica Nusheva, Labina Mitevska, Simeon Moni Damevski, Suad Begovski, Violeta Shapkovska
- Production: Sisters and Brother Mitevski
- Producers: Labina Mitevska
- Co-production: Entre Chien et Loup, Vertigo, Spiritus Movens Production, Deuxième Ligne Films, EZ Films
- Co-producers: Sebastien Delloye, Danijel Hocevar, Zdenka Gold, Marie Dubas, Elie Meirovitz
- Costumes: Monika Lorber
- Make Up: Mojca Gorogranc Petrushevska
- Format: DCP
- Color: Color
- Production Country: North Macedonia, Belgium, Slovenia, France, Croatia
- Production Year: 2019
- Duration: 100΄
- Distribution in Greece: Ama Films, amafilms@otenet.gr
- Contact: Pyramide International, sales@pyramidefilms.com
- Awards/Distinctions: Guild Film Prize, Prize of the Ecumenical Jury – Berlin International Film Festival 2019, FIPRESCI Prize – Motovun IFF
Teona Strugar Mitevska
Born in North Macedonia, director Teona Strugar Mitevska started as a child actor, trained as a painter and graphic designer and studied film at NYU-Tisch School of Arts. She directed her first short, Veta, in 2001, and has been making films ever since: How I Killed a Saint, 2004; I am from Titov Veles, 2007; The Woman Who Brushed Off Her Tears, 2012; Teresa and I, 2013; When the Day Had No Name, 2017, and most recently, God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya. The film premiered in competition in Berlin Film Festival 2019, where it was awarded the Ecumenical Prize, as well at the German Guild Film Prize. To this day, the film has received more than 30 awards internationally, most notably the 2019 LUX Prize by the European Parliament, and was sold for theatrical release to over 40 territories worldwide. In 2018, France's Ministry of Culture awarded her the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Letters. She is currently in pre-production of Mother, her first English-language film. Teona Strugar Mitevska lives between Skopje and Brussels with her son.
Filmography
2001 Veta (short)
2004 How I Killed a Saint
2007 I am from Titov Veles
2012 The Woman Who Brushed Off Her Tears
2017 When the Day Had No Name
2019 God Exists, Her Name is Petrunya
2022 The Happiest Man in the World
2023 21 Days Until the End of the World
2004 How I Killed a Saint
2007 I am from Titov Veles
2012 The Woman Who Brushed Off Her Tears
2017 When the Day Had No Name
2019 God Exists, Her Name is Petrunya
2022 The Happiest Man in the World
2023 21 Days Until the End of the World
