Teona Strugar Mitevska

Teona Strugar Mitevska is a Macedonian film director and screenwriter.

Career

In 2001, Teona Strugar Mitevska made her directorial debut with the short film Veta, which won the Special Jury Prize at the 51st Berlin International Film Festival. Her first feature film How I Killed a Saint was premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2004. Set in Macedonia during the 2001 civil conflict involving the country's ethnic Albanian minority, the film explores the crisis through the perspective of two troubled siblings. Viola returns to her family in Skopje after studying in the United States. Her younger brother Kokan becomes engaged with a group of radical nationalists. The movies is shot in a voyeuristic style that avoids close-ups.
In 2008, Teona Strugar Mitevska directed I Am from Titov Veles, screened at over 80 festivals around the world and won nearly 20 international awards.
In 2019, her film God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunija, won the LUX Prize.

Filmography

Short films

2001: ''Veta''