GOD WILL NOT HELP
BOG NEĆE POMOĆI
Directed by Hana Jušić
Croatia, Italy, Romania, Greece, France, Slovenia | 137 min | 2025 | Croatian, Spanish | drama
A traditional mountain community goes into turmoil when a mysterious foreign
woman arrives claiming to be the wife of a man who left them many years ago.
Credits
Director: Hana Jušić
Screenplay: Hana Jušić
Cinematography: Jana Plećaš
Editing: Jan Klemsche
Production Design: Laura Boni
Sound Design: Marius Leftărache
Cast: Manuela Martelli, Ana Marija Veselčić, Filip Đurić, Mauro Ercegović Gracin, Nikša Butijer, Tina Orlandini, Bogdan Farcaș, Ivan Skoko, Vinko Kraljević
Production Company: Kinorama
Co-production Companies: Nightswim, microFILM, Horsefly Films, Maneki Films, Perfo Production, ERT S.A.
With support of: Hrvatski audiovizualni centar, Eurimages, Italian Ministry of Culture (MIC), Romanian Film Center – CNC, Hellenic Film & Audiovisual Center – Creative Greece | Co- Production Window, European Union – NextGenerationEU, Aide aux Cinémas du Monde – Centre national du Cinéma et de l’Image Animée – Institut français, Slovenski filmski centar, Viba Film, ERT S.A., HRT, Re-Act
Hana JušićCroatia
Festivals & Awards
Festivals:
2025 – World Premiere – Locarno Film Festival | Concorso Internazionale – Best Performance Award
2025 – Locarno International Film Festival
2025 – São Paulo International Film Festival
2025 – Vancouver International Film Festival
2025 – Busan International Film Festival
2025 – Seville European Film Festival
2025 – Bangkok International Film Festival
2026 – Palm Springs International Film Festival
2026 – Sofia International Film Festival
2026 – Zagreb Film Festival
2026 – Écrans Mixtes
Awards:
2025 – Thessaloniki Film Festival – Winner: Artistic Achievement Award – Meet the Neighbors Competition
2025 – Sarajevo Film Festival | Winner: Special Award for Promoting Gender Equality
press quotes
„Hana Jušić’s second feature is a striking, rich work that tells a period family story containing surprising elements”
„God Will Not Help is a rich and remarkable film”
„Hana Jušić Reclaims the Figure of the Witch”
“strikingly atmospheric second feature.”
“…it never drags. Instead it slowly scorches deeper, an ember that carries inside it the potential at any moment to ignite with some uncontrollable emotion. With love, with longing, with righteous rage or shameful guilt, on a sacrificial pyre or in the eternal flames of hell: There are so many ways to burn.”
– VARIETY
“A mysterious, slow-burning film, God Will Not Help draws the viewer into the tangled web of family ties and power dynamics”
“God Will Not Help builds moody, forlorn, and tense undercurrents from a band of men expecting every woman to unquestioningly fall in line. Jušić is a director in sharp control of an ensemble that provokes one another while grappling with Teresa.”
