Evangelical priest Jana is at an important crossroad, faced with a life dilemma: whether to leave the priesthood and thus break the long family tradition of priests, since her father and mother are also priests. Jana, with her free-thinking and humorous views, breaks church norms and over time becomes more and more outcast in her own church. Her long-buried wounds from childhood also open up, making the cracks in family relationships more and more apparent. Woman of God is an intimate and brutally honest story about a witty and daring woman who must cut the umbilical cord in order to free herself. In doing so, she also reveals the hidden dirt and painful truth of a seemingly untouchable layer of society.
Slovenia 2023, '98
DIRECTOR: Maja Prettner
SCENARIO: Maja Prettner, Boštjan Virc, Iza Strehar
CAMERA: Jože Glažar
MONTAGE: Sara Gjergek
MUSIC: LeMaar, Simon Penšek
PRODUCERS: Nataša Vugrinec, Boštjan Virc
PRODUCTION: Studio Virc
FESTIVALS & AWARDS:
Al Jazeera: Balkan Star Award (2024)
Festival Of Slovenian Film: Audience Award; FIPRESCI Award; Director’s guild Award; Best Editing Award (2024)
Hot Docs (2024)
Torino FF (2024)
DOKUDOC (2024)
Maja Prettner
Maja Prettner holds an M.A. in Film Directing from the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She has been working as a screenwriter and director on an awarded documentary and fiction television series with different television broadcasters. Her films have been shown at film festivals in Slovenia and abroad. She was a Berlinale Talent Campus Alumna. Home Sweet Home (2017) was her first awarded documentary feature. Her latest documentary feature Woman of God was awarded the Al Jazeera Balkan Star Award, as well as the Audience Award, Fipresci Award and Best Editing Award at Slovenian Film Festival. The film had its premiere at Hot Docs Canadian Documentary Film Festival in Toronto. Currently she is in development of her first fiction feature.
