EXCLUSIVE: New Europe Movie Gross sales has boarded Croatian director and screenwriter Hana Jušić’s drama God Will Not Assist forward of its world premiere in competitors on the Locarno Movie Competition in August.
It’s Jušić’s second solo function movie after multi-award-winning 2016 debut Stop Gazing My Plate, on which New Europe additionally dealt with gross sales. Jušić’s different credit embody the collective work Transmania and quick movies Terrarium (Terarij) and No Wolf Has A Home.
Set within the early twentieth century, God Will Not Assist revolves across the arrival of Chilean lady Teresa in a structured and remoted mountain group of Croatian shepherds, claiming to be the widow of their émigré brother.
Her presence disrupts the dynamic of the close-knit group, sparking unrest but additionally bringing sudden freedom.
God Will Not Assist was amongst 17 titles introduced on Tuesday as having been chosen for Locarno’s Worldwide Competitors alongside photos similar to Ben Rivers’ Mare’s Nest, Radu Jude’s Dracula and Abdellatif Kechiche’s Mektoub, My Love: Canto Due.
Chilean actress and director Manuela Martelli (Machuca, Il Futuro) stars as Teresa. The film marks the primary massive display function in 5 years for Martelli, who additionally loved popularity of her function directorial debut 1976 in 2022.
Additional forged members embody Ana Marija Veselčić, Filip Đurić, Mauro Ercegović Gracin and Nikša Butijer.
The film is lead produced by Ankica Jurić Tilić (Sandbag Dam) at Croatian firm Kinorama.
Co-Producers are Ada Solomon and Diana Caravia at MicroFILM (Romania); Ines Vasiljević and Stefano Sardo at Nightswim (Italy); Didar Domehri at Maneki Movies (France); Yorgos Tsourgiannis at Horsefly Movies (Greece) in addition to Aleš Pavlin and Andrej Štritof at Perfo Manufacturing (Slovenia).
The function was made with the monetary assist of the Croatian Audiovisual Centre, Slovenian Movie Centre and Viba Movie Studio, Romania’s Nationwide Cinema Centre, France’s Nationwide Cinema Centre, Italy’s Ministry of Tradition in addition to Greece’s Greek Movie Centre and state broadcaster ERT.
Stop Gazing My Plate world premiered in Venice’s parallel Giornate degli Autori GdA sidebar, the place it received the Fedeora Finest Euro-Mediterranean Movie prize in Venice. It was the primary of a string of awards which additionally included Finest Director for Jušić on the Tokyo Movie Competition.
“We’re excited to proceed our collaboration with Hana, who’s a very thrilling voice amongst European administrators working at this time,” mentioned New Europe Movie Gross sales head Jan Naszewski.
