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
Writer and director Teona Strugar Mitevska was born in 1974 in Skopje, began her career as a child actor, and pursued studies in visual arts and film at NYU’s Tisch School. Her short Veta (2001) won the Berlinale Special Jury Prize (2002), and her debut feature How I Killed a Saint premiered in Rotterdam’s Tiger Competition (2004). Notable works include I Am from Titov Veles, When the Day Had No Name (Berlinale Panorama, 2017), and God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya (Berlinale Competition, 2019), which received prestigious awards, including the LUX Prize. This was followed by the film The Happiest Man in the World (Venice Horizons, 2022). Her latest feature, Mother (2025), marks her English-language debut.
Filmography
2001 Veta (short)
2004 Kako ubiv svetec
2007 Jas sum od Titov Veles
2012 The Woman Who Brushed Off Her Tears
2017 When the Day Had No Name
2019 God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunija
2022 The Happiest Man in the World
2023 21 Days Until the End of the World
2025 Mother (co-direction)
2004 Kako ubiv svetec
2007 Jas sum od Titov Veles
2012 The Woman Who Brushed Off Her Tears
2017 When the Day Had No Name
2019 God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunija
2022 The Happiest Man in the World
2023 21 Days Until the End of the World
2025 Mother (co-direction)
