The film is set in Split, city on Croatia’s Adriatic coastline.
Tereza is 37 and has been married for a very long time. After several miscarriages, her gynecologist, in attempt to cheer her up, jokes she should try to conceive with a different partner. This remark will shake up her monotonous life and make Tereza start questioning her marriage, relationship with her family and people around her. She decides to steer things in a new direction, letting other men and new experiences into it.
Director’s statement
The film emphasizes the issue of the suffocating environment, the issue of the individual freedom being squeezed into given frames as well as stepping out of these frames, creating a new and personal definition of one’s freedom.
Tereza37 does not talk just about a local problem, nor about the patriarchal world, deep-rooted in Southeast Europe – the film is about a world problem. Unfortunately, even though we live in the 21st century this is still a male world. Society does not look at one’s actions equally. A big difference in perception is made by the gender of the person taking certain steps. As a man, I felt a great responsibility to bring Lana’s beautiful screenplay to life. In these 8 years of making the film I have learned to listen.
In general, I believe that as a society we need to listen more, to understand and support others, those who are different in terms of gender, race, class …
And we don’t do that. It is sad that we still must talk about gender equality at all. That is why I decided to get involved in this project together with Lana and Irena, so we could through Tereza’s female cry touch as many of those as possible, who may still not understand, perceive, and see the problem.
The audience can expect from our film “a handful of tears and a bag of laughter”, as life itself offers us.
The film is set in Split, a mediterranean city with unique, quite narrow-minded mentality, conservative and traditional, despite being the second largest city in Croatia. It is a perfect stage for coloring that oppressing and inhibiting petty-bourgeois atmosphere. Although this story is set on the idyllic sea coast, the plot is free of all touristic stereotypes, as it all happens on muggy summer days in urban, mostly concrete surroundings.
Lana Barić – Tereza
Ivana Roščić – Renata
Leon Lučev – Marko
Marija Skaričić – Mirela
Dragan Mićanović – Nikola
Goran Marković – Vedran
Goran Bogdan – Aljoša
Snježana Sinovčić – Katja
Nenad Srdelić – Ivan
Nataša Janjić Medančić – Ivana
Niksa Butijer – Hrvoje
Arijana Čulina – Doctor
Stipe Radoja – Waiter
Vicko Bilandžić – Dr. Kovačević
Monika Vuco – Theatre Actress 1
Marija Šegvić – Theatre Actress 2
Josip Brakus – Theatre Actor
Lada Bonacci – Željka
Damir Poljičak – Director
Mate Gulin – Frane
Roko Sikavica – Man in the club
Andrea Mladinić – Saleswoman
Ivan Medić – Doctor
Jolanda Tudor – Nurse
Anja Govorko – Siticka
Franko Jakovčević – Frane
Director
Danilo Šerbedžija
Scriptwriter
Lana Barić
Producer
Irena Marković
Director Of Photography
Mirko Pivčević
Editor
Dubravka Turić
Sound Designer
Dubravka Premar
Art Designer
Petra Poslek
Costum Designer
Željka Franulović
Make-Up Artist
Snježana Gorup
Composer
Darko Marković
Line Producer
Ivan Perić
Sound Recordist
Hrvoje Pelicarić
1st Assistant Director
Jakov Nola
2nd Assistant Director
Pere Cukrov
Director’s Art Assistant
Dubravka Turić
Script Continuity
Marina Lesić
Production Coordinator
Liberta Mišan
Production Assistant
Anja Mikačić
Set Manager
Marko Višnjić
Location Scout Assistant & Runner
Josip Rogošić
Focus Puller
Jure Koštić
Clapper Loader
Thomas Krstulović
Video Assist Operator
Ivan Sertić
Digital Imaging Technician
Filip Gavranić
Still Photographer
Nikola Predović
Gaffer
Joško Milić
Technicians
Tomislav Zainko
Marino Marini
Grips
Robert Špehar
Boom Operator
Vojan Koceić
Assistant Art Director
Eda Tutić
Props Buyers
Luka Botrić
Elvis Lasović
Props Masters
Frane Didić
Ivan Lutter
Costume Designer Assistant
Ana Kala Kovačević
Dresser
Katarina Bilan
Make-Up Assistant
Romana Niksić
Editor Assistant
Lea Mileta
Re-Recording Mixer / Dialogue Editor
Ivan Zelić
Foley Artist
Siniša Krneta
Foley Recordist
Sandro Adamović
European Union Film Festival
European Union Film Festival
European Union Film Festival
Eastern Neighbours Film Festival
Close:Up Reykjavik Film Festival
International Film+Video Festival
Actor's Film Festival
Annual Aarhus Film Festival
Fast Forward Human Rights Film Festival
OSCAR VIP Screening: Rodeo Screening Room, Beverly Hills
East by Southeast Film Festival
Arras Film Festival
Cinequest Film & VR Festival
ON TOUR - Eastern Neighbours Film Festival
Beginning of Serbian distribution
Otranto Film Festival
LIFFE
Dani hrvatskog filma "Ivo Gregurević"
Nòt Film Fest
Dunav Film Fest
Betina Film Festival
Trebinje Film Festival
MANARAT Film Festival
Beirut International Women's Film Festival
Croatian distribution - premiere in Zagreb
Vox Feminae Festival
Drive-in kultura
FEST 2021
Indy Film Fest
Balkan New Film Festival
East Europe International Film Festival
Podgorica Film Festival
Arras Film Festival
Zagreb Film Festival
Mostra de València, Film Festival
Warsaw Film Festival
Mediteranski ženski festival
KaP
MFF – Motovun putuje
Four River FF
MFF – Motovun putuje
Pula Film Festival
MFF – Motovun putuje
MFF & RiFF
MFF – Motovun putuje
MFF – Motovun putuje
MFF – Motovun putuje
MFF – Motovun putuje
MFF – Motovun putuje
MFF – Motovun putuje
Motovun Film Festival