17/12/2015 - Serbian star Mirjana Karanović’s directorial debut will screen in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival

A Good Wife [+see also:
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interview: Stevan Filipović
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interview: Arben Zharku
interview: Isa Qosja
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interview: Andrea Staka
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Co-written with Stevan Filipović (who Karanović worked with on Next to Me) and Darko Lungulov (Monument to Michael Jackson, Here and There [+see also:
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After a routine check-up when the doctor suspects cancer, Milena starts a bout of hysterical spring cleaning and finds a VHS tape with footage of Vlada’s task force killing civilians during the war. From this point on, we follow Milena's struggle to face up to this fact, and her efforts to preserve the only thing she has in life – her family – with the help of her estranged older daughter Nataša (Hristina Popović, from Circles and Next to Me). 

Bojan Navojec (Life Is a Trumpet [+see also:
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A Good Wife was produced by Serbia’s This And That Production, Bosnia’s Deblokada and Croatia’s Nukleus Film, and is handled internationally by Films Boutique.