I Know Your Soul

I Know Your Soul (TV series)

64th TIFF: Greek Premiere

Sarajevo prosecutor and single mother Nevena’s latest case hits close to home: A teenage boy from the same school as her son Dino has committed suicide. Nevena attracts bad publicity when the bereaved father criticizes her slow investigation, yet she earns little sympathy for her understaffed department or impending divorce. Soon Nevena learns the school may be hiding abuse among its students, and consumed by concern for Dino, Nevena is blindsided when the victim’s father names her son as an abuser. Driven by motherly love and moral responsibility, Nevena desperately seeks facts in an increasingly hostile environment. She knows that in a society where justice is controlled by wealth and a male political elite, her sole allies in her hunt for the truth remain an old flame and a new coworker who reports to her superior behind her back. But the fact-finding that makes Nevena so good at her job pits her against the son she fears she can no longer trust.

Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.

Direction: Jasmila Žbanić

Script: Jasmila Žbanić, Elma Tataragić

Cinematography: Christine A. Maier, Eldar Emrić

Editing: Vladimir Gojun

Sound: Igor Čamo

Music: Mirza Rahmanović Indigo

Actors: Jasna Đuričić, Lazar Dragojević, Ermin Bravo, Mirvad Kurić, Emir Hadžihafizbegović

Production: Mirna Ler

Producers: Damir Ibrahimović, Jasmila Žbanić, Sedin Kahriman

Costumes: Irma Saje

Production Design: Mirna Ler

Make Up: Mojca Gorogranc Petrushevska

Format: DCP

Color: Color

Production Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina

Production Year: 2023

Duration: 87'

Contact: Beta Film

Jasmila Žbanić

She graduated from the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo, Department for Theater and Film Directing. Before filmmaking, she worked as a puppeteer in Vermont-based “Bread and Puppet” theater and as a clown in a Lee Delong workshop. In 1997, together with her friends, she founded the Artists’ Association Deblokada, through which she produced, wrote, and directed many documentaries, video-art works, and shorts. Among them is the feature film Grbavica, which won the Golden Bear at Berlinale 2006. Her 2020 film Quo Vadis, Aida? premiered at the Venice Film Festival and received the European Film Awards for Best Film, Best Director, and Best Lead Actress, was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film, and received two BAFTA nominations, besides multiple other awards.