Marija Perović ‘s BREASTS : SEEfest 2021 Interviews; talks about balancing the personalities and relationships between four distinct characters in her film

Marija Perović’s film BREASTS, which just screened at the 2021 South East European Film Festival, centers around a twenty year high-school reunion which brings together four friends.

One of them is has recently received a cancer diagnosis and her three friends have varying emotional responses in how they both handle the news and approach the idea of wanting to help her in their own way.

And, as she, personally deals with the idea of her own mortality, all four ultimately who they really are.

In the interview, we talk about Marija’s work with the main actors in the film – since those performances were a highlight for me me personally – as well as how they each came to the project from different countries. We also talk about the seeming rarity today of having a film focused on 40-something leads and their behavior (as opposed to a having a film fronted by a much younger cast). We also discuss the editing process and balancing the four characters equally when a really strong individual performance can inspire an editor to give them more screen time than was originally intended.

Marija Perović ‘s BREASTS : SEEfest 2021 Interviews; talks about balancing the personalities and relationships between four distinct characters in her film