CYCLE: DIRECTOR

From 13.02. To 19.02.2020.

Portraits: Federico Fellini

Teona Strugar Mitevska

- 14.05.1974

Made her directorial debut with the short, Veta (Special Jury award at Berlinale 2012). She is the co-founder of the production house Sisters and Brother Mitevski, with which she directed How I Killed a Saint (2004), I Am from Titov Veles (2007, Special Jury Prize at Sarajevo), and The Woman Who Brushed off Her Tears (Berlinale 2012).

Filmography

Films by this director

God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunija

(Gospod postoi, imeto i' e Petrunija, Sjeverna Macedonia, Belgium, Slovenia, Croatia, France, 2019)

Directed by: Teona Strugar Mitevska

PHOTOGRAPHY: Virginie Saint Martin

Synopsis:

This feminist satire from the Balkans follows the events in the Macedonian town od Štip, where every January, the local priest throws a wooden cross into the river and hundreds of men jump in after it. The one who fishes it out is promised good fortune and success. This time, Petrunija jumps into the river too, and manages to get to the cross first. The men are furious because a woman dared to participate in their ritual and total chaos ensues, but Petrunija (a stellar performance by Zori...

color, 100'

The happiest Man in the World

(NajsreЌniot čovek na svetot, BiH, 2022)

Directed by: Teona Strugar Mitevska

PHOTOGRAPHY: Virginie Saint Martin

Synopsis:

Sarajka Asja ima 40 godina i nema partnera. Nadajući se da će upoznati nekog novog, jedne subote na majčin nagovor odlazi na speed dating. Spajaju je s 43-godišnjim bankarom Zoranom. Međutim, Zoran ne traži ljubav, već oprost. Ova britka drama prikazana je na Venecijanskom filmskom festivalu i u Torontu. Scenarij su napisale redateljica Teona Strugar Mitevska i scenaristica Elma Tataragić, nastavljajući suradnju s prethodne uspješnice Bog postoji, njeno ime je Petrunija&...

color, 85'

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