Murina

Chafing against her oppressive, overbearing father Ante, Julija, a rebellious teenage girl, embraces independence and flirts with desire over the course of a formative weekend in this sunny, sinister Croatian drama. The title references a type of Moray eel that the father and daughter spear-hunt under water near their Adriatic island home. When Ante invites old friend Cliff for a weekend to pitch a life-changing business deal, it soon becomes clear that the charismatic Cliff once had a relationship with Julija’s beautiful mother Nela. But Cliff’s roving eye is also drawn to Nela’s smoldering, nubile daughter. Inspired by debuting feature director’s Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic’s prize-winning short Into The Blue, Murina nabbed the prestigious Golden Camera at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival for best first feature. The Dubrovnik-born, New York-based Kusijanovic is a graduate of the Columbia University screenwriting and directing program and boasts Martin Scorsese as a producer here.

Director Biography

Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic is from Dubrovnik, Croatia, and earned an MA from the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb and an MFA in screenwriting and directing from Columbia University. She is the director of the short films “Nonina” (2013), “Eye for an Eye” (2015), “If We Must Die” (16), and “Into the Blue” (2017).

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