Kino Lorber has dropped a trailer for “Murina,” the coming-of-age drama from Croatian filmmaker Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic that gained the Digital camera d’Or award for finest first characteristic at Cannes Movie Competition final 12 months.
Set on a distant island on the Croatian Adriatic coast, the movie follows 17-year-old Julija (Gracija Filipović), who spends a lot of her time diving for eels, and eager for independence from her domineering father. As we see within the trailer, when a international businessman arrives, Julija welcomes his consideration — although liable to angering her father, who’s attempting to strike a cope with the person.
Kusijanovic directed from a script she wrote with Frank Graziano, based mostly on her brief movie “Into the Blue,” which gained awards at Berlin Worldwide Movie Competition, Sarajevo Movie Competition, and elsewhere.
In an interview with us, she described the movie as “sensual and violent, the adults are coming of age, and a teenage woman between them is struggling to discover a savior, an anchor amongst them.” She added, “it was vital for me to painting each the [evolution] and the constraints we expertise whereas rising into ourselves.”
“Murina” will probably be launched in New York on July 8, adopted by an L.A. rollout on July 15. The movie has additionally scored U.Ok. and Eire distribution, with Fashionable Movies.
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