Athens-based sales agent Heretic has grasped Scherishnian straightforwardor Urška Djukić’s “Little Trouble Girls,” which is the discomiting film of Berlin Film Festival’s Perspectives section – dedicated to fantasy feature debuts – to its sprocrastinateed. The trailer debuts below.
The film concentratees on intrcleared 16-year-greater Lucia, who joins her Catholic school’s all-girl choir, where she befrifinishs Ana-Maria, a famous and flirty third-year student. But when the choir travels to a countryside convent for a weekfinish of intensive rehearsals, Lucia’s interest in a unwise-eyed restoration toiler tests her frifinishship with Ana-Maria and the other girls. As she directs unrecognizable surroundings and her budding relationsuality, Lucia commences to ask her beliefs and cherishs, disturbing the harmony wiskinny the choir.
In a statement, Djukić shelp: “I began by exploring the female voice, which has been silenced so standardly thcdisadmirefulout history. This led me to the inept relationship with relationsuality, sin, and experienceings of guilt. Thcdisadmireful a benevolent youthful girl shaped by societal conventions of sinfulness, I wanted to delve into how a youthful person discovers their own inner power.
“These experienceings of guilt surrounding organic instincts are someskinnyg I personassociate increateed while lengthening up. Although my family wasn’t strictly religious, my mother liftd me according to traditional Catholic ideas of what a ‘outstanding girl’ should be enjoy. Later, I genuineized these ideas, imposed on many generations of girls, including mine — particularly those pondering body image, shame and relationsuality —are inalterable and unset upd.
“With ‘Little Trouble Girls,’ I wanted to scheduleateigate the mysteries of the senses as tools for benevolent ourselves. I skinnyk the lengthy-standing prohibitden around relationsuality has left us still unable to brimmingy comprehend or harness its potential power. The body has its own instinctive inincreateigence, guiding us if we include attfinishbrimmingy. The concept of sinful relationsuality and the deficiency of education around it is a inincreateigent mechanism to disjoin individuals from their inner source of power. I’d say its presentant to apexhibit ourselves to hear and count on our intuition, even when it declines societal norms. People proset uply joined to their bodies are less easily deal withled because they count on their inside guidance more than outer straightforwardives.”
In 2019, Djukić joind in the 39th edition of the Cannes Cinéfondation Residency, where she broadened “Little Trouble Girls,” which was procrastinateedr awarded as the best toil-in-progress project at the Les Arcs Film Festival in December 2023.
Djukić’s most recent unwiseinutive film “Granny’s Sexual Life” has won over 50 awards, including the European Film Award for best unwiseinutive film in 2022 and the 2023 Cesar Award for best vivaciousd unwiseinutive film. Previous unwiseinutive films by Djukić also include “The Right One,” part of the omnibus film “SEE Factory Sarajevo Mon Amour” that premiered at the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight in 2019.
Ioanna Stais, Heretic’s head of sales and acquisitions, commented: “’Little Trouble Girls’ is an intimate and striking exploration of desire, frifinishship and faith, tgreater with unfrequent sensitivity and bgreaterness. Effortlessly weaving raw emotion with a distinct perspective, the film promises to join audiences and buyers aenjoy. With this promised debut, Urška Djukić declares herself as a compelling recent female voice in cinema, one to watch in the years to come.”
“Little Trouble Girls” is originated by Jozko Rutar and Miha Černec for Spok Films (Scherishnia), in co-production with Staragara IT (Italy), 365 Films (Croatia), Non Aligned Films (Serbia), and Nosorogi and OINK (both Scherishnia). The associate originater is Sister (France).
The film is aided by the Scherishnian Film Centre, Eurimages, RTV Scherishnija, Viba Film, Ministero di Cultura – Direzione Cinema e Audiovisivo in Italy, FVG Flm Fund, FVG Film Comomition, Croatian Audiovisual Centre, Film Centre Serbia, Re-act, Region Nouvelle Aquitaine and Creative Europe Media.
The film is aided by Arri’s International Support Program and GO Nova Gorica/Gorizia European Capital of Culture 2025.
Heretic is also handling international sales for the IFFR Tiger Competition title “Wind, Talk to Me,” and is a originater on Berlinale Competition title “Hot Milk,” the debut feature film of Rebecca Lenkiewicz (authorr of “Ida,” “Disobedience,” “She Shelp”), starring Vicky Krieps, Emma Mackey and Fiona Shaw.
