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GOD WILL NOT HELP Croatia-Italy-Romania-Greece-France-Slovenia, 2025, 137 min, color

When Teresa turns up at the household of the Mitrovic family one night her arrival, neither invited nor forewarned, is as dramatic as the thunderstorm that is raging in the highlands outside. She’s travelled on an arduous boat journey from Chile, but she might as well be from another galaxy. At any rate, it seems she “fell from the sky” to Milena, who was left by her brothers to mind the place for the summer while they take their flocks to less parched ground, and is the only person at home. She brings the shocking news that she is the wife of Marko, the eldest, emigre son of the family, who has died in a ranch fire, leaving just the bones that she has brought to bury. At least, that’s her story — and it will take some time for the unvarnished facts to emerge.

 

AWARDS AND NOMINATIONS

Locarno ’25 – Best Performance (Manuela Martelli, Ana Marija Veselčić)

Hana Jušić

Hana Jušić

Hana Jušić was born in Sibenik, Croatia. She studied film directing at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb. So far she has written and directed several short films such as Chill (2011), Terrarium (2012) and Zagreb Honolulu (2014). She has also written the script for a children hit film Mysterious Boy (2013). Her screenwriting and directing feature debut Quit Staring at My Plate (2016) had its premiere at the venice film festival.

SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY

2010 Smart Girls / short

2011 Chill / short 

2012 Terrarium / short

2016 Transmania / co-dir.

2016 Quit Staring at My Plate

2025 God Will Not Help

DIRECTOR
Hana Jušić
SCRIPT
Hana Jušić
CAMERA
Jana Plecas
MUSIC
Stavros Evangelou, Iris Asimakopoulou, Vasilis Chontos
CAST
Manuela Martelli, Ana Marija Veselčić, Filip Đurić, Mauro Ercegović Gracin, Nikša Butijer
PRODUCERS
Ankica Jurić Tilić
PRODUCTION
Kinorama, microFILM, Nightswim

GOD WILL NOT HELP Croatia-Italy-Romania-Greece-France-Slovenia, 2025, 137 min, color

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