Development - Drama - 100 minutes
Year of production : 2018 Director(s) : Teona STRUGAR MITEVSKA
Every 19th January during Epiphany, a unique ceremony takes placeall around Macedonia: the high priest throws a cross into the localwaters while hundreds of men charge for it. The one who finds it isblessed for the whole next year and becomes kind of a local hero.Petrunija is single unemployed 31-year-old woman and a historianwho lives with her parents. Returning home from a failed job interviewin a sweatshop factory she witnesses the ceremony, decides to jump,swims and catches the cross. Immediately, the men attack her andwrestle the cross out of her hands since as a woman she has no rightto participate. A commotion follows and at the moment of heightenedconfusion Petrunija runs away with the cross. Over the next few hoursher jump into the icy water becomes an Internet sensation. Petrunijais taken to a police station, and this is where her ordeal begins: againstthe local men, against the world, against the system. From a room toa corridor, to a room again, she spends the night being transferredaround the impersonal governmental spaces. She insists that she is thewinner and refuses to return the cross. One by one, the policemen, theinspector, the priest unsuccessfully try to convince her to give up.Through these 24 hours we discover a society full of stereotypes, withcollapsed social and justice system.
Country(ies) : NORTH MACEDONIA, BELGIUM, SLOVENIA, FRANCE
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