{"id":10427,"date":"2019-09-17T08:50:21","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T06:50:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.nihrff.de\/6032-revision-v1\/"},"modified":"2024-06-26T15:11:36","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T13:11:36","slug":"films-2019-god-exists-her-name-is-petrunya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nihrff.de\/en\/films-2019-god-exists-her-name-is-petrunya\/","title":{"rendered":"God Exists, Her Name is Petrunya"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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God Exists, Her Name is Petrunya<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Gospod postoi, imeto i\u2019 e Petrunija<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

DIRECTOR(S): <\/strong>Teona Strugar Mitevska\u00a0\u00a0 COUNTRIES: <\/strong>Macedonia, Belgium, Slovenia, Croatia, France\u00a0\u00a0 YEAR: <\/strong>2019\u00a0\u00a0 LANGUAGE(S): <\/strong>Macedonian\u00a0\u00a0 SUBTITLES: <\/strong>German\u00a0\u00a0 RUNNING TIME: <\/strong>100 min<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SECTION: <\/strong>International Forum 2019<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

SCREENINGS <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Friday, 04.10., 4.30 pm, Caritas-Pirckheimer-Haus
Sunday, 06.10., 5.30 pm, Caritas-Pirckheimer-Haus, Q&A with Teona Strugar Mitevska<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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SYNOPSIS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Tell them you\u2019re 24\u2019, advises Petrunya\u2019s mother as her daughter heads off to another interview. But Petrunya is 31; moreover, she has studied history, a subject that no one in Macedonia seems to need. So there she sits in front of her potential employer, a factory owner, who looks down on her floral dress and refuses to take her seriously. On her way home \u2013 naturally, she did not get the job \u2013 Petrunya decides to take the plunge. It is Epiphany and, like every year, the young men of the city are diving for the holy cross that the priest has thrown into the icy river. This time, Petrunya is quicker than everyone else and ends up holding the trophy aloft for the TV cameras. For one whole day and one night, she will defend the cross, accompanied by much public commotion and against the closed ranks of the male world.
Teona Strugar Mitevska delivers an angry yet melancholic satire that questions the status of democratic change in Macedonian society and passes scathing judgement on representatives of the church, the judiciary and the media. The film\u2019s sympathies are all with the determined woman who asserts herself against archaic traditions and paralyzing opportunism. (Berlinale)<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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