Murina

In Murina I wanted to explore the tensions of a family invaded by a foreigner, an outsider who propels a girl’s inner power to confront the limitations of the mentality she’s known her whole life … Chauvinism is so deeply rooted in our society that we often mistake it for our cultural mentality. The father implements it because it suits him, the mother supports it because she is raised to do so. For Julija, chauvinism is an antagonistic force so present as a response to her every action that she mistakes its boundaries for her own potential … Julija lives in a physical paradise on a Croatian island, but in a society obsessed with getting rich quick by selling away its own essence, where a daughter’s strength is mistaken for her father’s weakness, and land’s value is mistaken for profit. Julija has an intuition for these dynamics … She is like the murina, the moray eel, an animal that will bite its own flesh to break free from a fisherman. Her power is her faith in herself, in nature, and in the unknown. Her power is that she refuses to be silenced.

This film text is taken from the catalog of the Trieste Film Festival 2022.

Weltspiegel Saal 2: original version with English subtitles.

Glad-House: original version with English subtitles + German simultaneous translation