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God Exists, Her Name is Petrunya

Sun, Mar 07

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MFF Digital Theatre

In honour of International Women's Day, March 8, 2021, MFF presents a film inspired by a true story and the struggles of equality. Watch any time on Sunday and Monday, March 7 & 8, 2021.

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God Exists, Her Name is Petrunya
God Exists, Her Name is Petrunya

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Mar 07, 2021, 12:00 a.m. – Mar 09, 2021, 12:00 a.m.

MFF Digital Theatre

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About the Event

Every January during Epiphany, a unique ceremony takes place all around Macedonia: the high priest throws a cross into the local waters while hundreds of men charge for it. The one who finds it is blessed for the whole next year and becomes kind of a local hero. Petrunija is a single unemployed 31-year-old woman and a historian who lives with her parents. Returning home from a failed job interview in a sweatshop factory, she witnesses the ceremony, decides to jump, swims and catches the cross. Immediately, the men attack her and wrestle the cross out of her hands since as a woman she has no right to participate. A commotion follows and at the moment of heightened confusion Petrunija runs away with the cross. Over the next few hours her jump into the icy water becomes an internet sensation. Petrunija is taken to a police station, and this is…

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