North Macedonian director Teona Mitevska, best known for "Mother" and the Berlinale-winning "God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya," has revealed she is developing a sequel to the 2019 feminist satirical drama. The announcement, made exclusively to Variety at the Sarajevo Film Festival, signals a return to the themes of patriarchy and female defiance that defined the original, this time filtered through a younger generation's experience of mental health struggles, social media and economic precarity.

The new film, titled "Petra Doesn't Want to Die (Anatomy of Masculinity)" and co-written with Elma Tataragić, follows a rebellious Belgian teenager who, despite battling anorexia, bipolar disorder, OCD and trichotillomania, travels to North Macedonia determined to end her life. There she meets Nenad, a millennial incel in the town of Makedonska Kamenica, who agrees to help her. Mitevska described the project as "a continuation, a reinterpretation, or a counterpoint" to "God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya," which won the Ecumenical Jury Prize at Berlin in 2019, and said it was inspired by asking "where are the Petrunyas of today?" amid rising youth suicide rates and the pressures of algorithm-driven social media.