God Will Not Help

“I was drawn to this story most of all by the way in which the rough reality of the shepherds’ world is reflected in our times as an ever-present echo in the creation of modern society out of the smaller and almost primordial communities. In the reverberations of that echo, I wanted to talk about the women who are on the margin of that world even more than it is usual for their gender, about the women who, in the end, from the margin assigned to them, stick their tongues out at patriarchy. Also, in this film, I wanted to explore what true human solidarity and empathy mean within the frame of rigid value systems, which are based on the feverish desire to belong or possess. In doing that, the very impossibility of communication is also of crucial importance, as a motif which generally intrigues me in my work (because language is always inadequate). Maybe because they are deprived of the conventional means of communication, Teresa and Milena, and Teresa and Ilija really “see“ one another. Such a “displaced” view allows them to save each other at least for a moment, or rather to help one another, since it is obvious that God will not help.”