Macedonian actress, director, and scenographer Teona Strugar Mitevska was at the Venice Film Festival last year with The Happiest Man in the World. She is back this year for a special event in the Venice Days programme with an intimate, very personal film produced during lockdown, which Strugar Mitevska spent with her relatives.
“The entire family was happy to be together in our family’s country house outside Skopje until the day our uncle died and I, we were all surrounded by death and fear was our guide. What if this is it and there might not be tomorrow, am I ready to accept my own fragility, would I die alone, could I leave the world as it is, do I dare go to the other side-if there is another side… all these dilemmas huddled my head […] I needed to do something. I wanted to peel off layers of suppressed emotions. I needed to work. My concept was simple: I will count 21 days forward, equaling 21 daily reflections on my life. In the process, I wrote, filmed, and edited my most personal work.”