Gospod postoi, imeto i’ e Petrunija | God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya ...
Competition 2019
MKD/BEL/SVN/HRV/FRA 2019
by: Teona Strugar Mitevska
Zorica Nusheva
Gospod postoi, imeto i’ e Petrunija | God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya ...
Competition 2019
MKD/BEL/SVN/HRV/FRA 2019
by: Teona Strugar Mitevska
Zorica Nusheva
Gospod postoi, imeto i’ e Petrunija | God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya ...
Competition 2019
MKD/BEL/SVN/HRV/FRA 2019
by: Teona Strugar Mitevska
Stefan Vujisic, Zorica Nusheva
Gospod postoi, imeto i’ e Petrunija | God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya ...
Competition 2019
MKD/BEL/SVN/HRV/FRA 2019
by: Teona Strugar Mitevska
Zorica Nusheva, Suad Begovski
Gospod postoi, imeto i’ e Petrunija | God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya ...
Competition 2019
MKD/BEL/SVN/HRV/FRA 2019
by: Teona Strugar Mitevska
Gospod postoi, imeto i’ e Petrunija | God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya ...
Competition 2019
MKD/BEL/SVN/HRV/FRA 2019
by: Teona Strugar Mitevska
Teona Strugar Mitevska
Feb 10, 2019Teona Strugar Mitevska
The director signing her Star Portrait.
Competition – Gospod postoi, imeto i’ e Petrunija | God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya
Feb 10, 2019Monika Grütters, Asaf Ademi, Gorjan Tozija, Teona Strugar Mitevska
The Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media together with the Macedonian Minister of Culture, the head of the Macedonian Film Agency and the film's director.
Competition – Gospod postoi, imeto i’ e Petrunija | God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya
Feb 10, 2019Zorica Nusheva, Dieter Kosslick, Teona Strugar Mitevska
The Festival Direktor amidst the leading actress (left) and the director (right).
Competition – Gospod postoi, imeto i’ e Petrunija | God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya
Feb 10, 2019Teona Strugar Mitevska
Shaking hands with the director.
Competition – Gospod postoi, imeto i’ e Petrunija | God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya
Feb 10, 2019Teona Strugar Mitevska, Thomas Hailer
The director and the Berlinale curator want you!
Competition – Gospod postoi, imeto i’ e Petrunija | God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya
Feb 10, 2019Teona Strugar Mitevska
Competition – Gospod postoi, imeto i’ e Petrunija | God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya
Feb 10, 2019Zorica Nusheva
The leading actress gets the Berlinale Bear pinned on.
Competition – Gospod postoi, imeto i’ e Petrunija | God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya
Feb 10, 2019Nikolaj Nikitin, Teona Strugar Mitevska
Der Berlinale delegate with the leading actress on their way to the premiere.
Competition – Gospod postoi, imeto i’ e Petrunija | God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya
Feb 10, 2019Zorica Nusheva, Teona Strugar Mitevska, Labina Mitevska
The actresses surrounding the euphoric director.
Competition – Gospod postoi, imeto i’ e Petrunija | God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya
Feb 10, 2019Elma Tataragic, Gorjan Tozija
The screenwriter is shining on the Red Carpet.
Competition – Gospod postoi, imeto i’ e Petrunija | God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya
Feb 10, 2019Film team
At the premiere.
Competition – Gospod postoi, imeto i’ e Petrunija | God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya
Feb 10, 2019Zorica Nusheva, Suad Begovski, Simeon Moni Damevski
The actor with some photo fun on the Red Carpet.
Competition – Gospod postoi, imeto i’ e Petrunija | God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya
Feb 10, 2019Suad Begovski
The actor with his Star Portrait.
Competition – Gospod postoi, imeto i’ e Petrunija | God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya
Feb 10, 2019Xhevdet Jasari
In the Berlinale Palast.
Competition – Gospod postoi, imeto i’ e Petrunija | God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya
Feb 12, 2019Labina Mitevska, Teona Strugar Mitevska
The leading actress and the director in the b-ware! Ladenkino.
Berlinale Goes Kiez – Gospod postoi, imeto i’ e Petrunija | God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya
Feb 12, 2019Teona Strugar Mitevska
The director of the Competition film during Q&A at the neighbourhood cinema b-ware! Ladenkino.
Berlinale Goes Kiez – Gospod postoi, imeto i’ e Petrunija | God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya
Feb 16, 2019Group picture
The Ecumenical Jury with the winners from the sections Competition und Panorama: Margrit Frölich (Jury), Labina Mitevska (Actress in and producer of the winning film Gospod postoi, imeto i’ e Petrunija), Dominique Dipio (Jury), Pamela Aleman (Jury), Kristine Greenaway (Jury), Rodd Rathjen (director of the winning film Buoyancy), Micah Bucey (Jury) and Dr. Anna Grebe (Head of the Jury).
Competition – Gospod postoi, imeto i’ e Petrunija | God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya – Prizes of the Independent Juries
Feb 16, 2019Impressions
The actress and producer Labina Mitevska whose film did not only win the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury, but also the Guild Film Prize awarded by the members of the AG Kino - Gilde e.V.; right picture: the Jury members Adrian Kutter and Jens Schneiderheinze with Labina Mitevska (middle).
Competition – Gospod postoi, imeto i’ e Petrunija | God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya – Prizes of the Independent Juries
Suad Begovski
Labina Mitevska
Zorica Nusheva
Teona Strugar Mitevska
Elma Tataragic (Screenwriter), Zorica Nusheva (Actress), Teona Strugar Mitevska (Director, Screenwriter), Labina Mitevska (Actress, Producer), Vuk Mitevski (Production Designer)
Moderation: Nikolaj Nikitin
Press Conference at full length‘Tell them you’re 24’, advises Petrunya’s 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 – naturally, she did not get the job – 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’s sympathies are all with the determined woman who asserts herself against archaic traditions and paralysing opportunism.
by
Teona Strugar Mitevska
Macedonia / Belgium / Slovenia / Croatia / France 2019
Macedonian
100’ · Colour
World premiere
Zorica Nusheva (Petrunya)Labina Mitevska (Slavica)Simeon Moni Damevski (Chief Inspector Milan)Suad Begovski (Priest)Violeta Shapkovska (Vaska)Stefan Vujisic (Young Officer)Xhevdet Jasari (Cameraman)Andrijana Kolevska (Blagica)
Born in Skopje, Macedonia in 1974, she now lives there and in Brussels. Her first brush with film was as a child actor. She has a degree in graphic design and studied film at the Tisch School of the Arts in New York. Her short film Veta screened in Panorama. Her feature film Jas sum od Titov Veles, which screened at over 80 festivals worldwide and won over 20 awards, as well as The Woman Who Brushed Off Her Tears and, most recently, When the Day Had no Name have all screened at the Berlinale. She runs the Sisters and Brother Mitevski production company with her siblings Vuk and Labina.
Filmography1999 Why is Betty Boop Angry; short film 2000 Amer in Amerika; short film 2001 Veta; short film 2004 How I Killed a Saint 2008 Jas sum od Titov Veles (I Am from Titov Veles) 2012 Alerik · The Woman Who Brushed Off Her Tears 2017 When the Day Had no Name 2019 Gospod postoi, imeto i’ e Petrunija (God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya)
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2019
Sisters and Brother Mitevski
Pyramide Internationalwww.pyramidefilms.com