The Happiest Man in the World

Carmel International Competition

"An intense, spikily stylised drama"

SCREENDAILY
  • Archive - Festival 38
  • Director: Teona Strugar Mitevska
  • North Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Slovenia 2022
  • 95 minutes
  • Bosnian
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

Asja is a 45-year-old legal advisor looking for romantic love. Encouraged by her mother, she reluctantly attends a blind-dating event in her hometown, Sarajevo, where she is matched with a banker named Zoran. A dangerous, ambivalent courtship dance soon develops between the two, a ritual of love and war reminiscent of Sarajevo’s recent history.

The Happiest Man in the World is an intense, stylized drama with a brilliant cast of characters and a script sharper than Cupid's arrow. The film comes to Haifa directly from its screenings in the Venice and Toronto Festivals.

Filmography: God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya (2019), The Woman Who Brushed off Her Tears (2022), I Am from Titov Veles (2007)

 

*Dear customers, when buying a multiple number of tickets you are advised to check our "Tickets and Sales" page for the most cost-effective options.
Take notice: The multiple-entry ticket must be purchased before the individual movie tickets.
 

  • Director Teona Strugar Mitevska
  • Production Labina Mitevska, Sébastien Delloye, Danijel Hočevar, Vanja Sremac, Maria Møller Christoffersen, Amra Bakšić Čamo, Adis Đapo
  • Script Elma Tataragić, Teona Strugar Mitevska
  • Cinematography Virginie Saint Martin
  • Editing Per K. Kirkegaard
  • Festivals Venice, Toronto
  • Actors Jelena Kordić Kuret, Adnan Omerović, Labina Mitevska, Ana Kostovska
  • Source Pyramide