{"id":59916,"date":"2025-08-10T20:45:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T20:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/59916\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T20:45:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T20:45:06","slug":"fantasy-director-kukla-writing-film-about-women-stopping-to-have-sex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/59916\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Fantasy’ Director Kukla Writing Film About Women Stopping to Have Sex"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tSlovenian director Kukla, whose debut feature\u00a0Fantasy<\/a>\u00a0world premiered at the\u00a078th edition<\/a>\u00a0of the\u00a0Locarno Film Festival<\/a> in the\u00a0Filmmakers of the Present<\/a>\u00a0lineup Friday, is working on a new project that promises to bring her unique voice to a story about sex, war, TikTok, and the relationship between women and men.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cMy next film is about a potential threat of a third World War,\u201d the writer and director tells THR. \u201cOf course, 99 percent of the world leaders are male, and then a TikToker, as a joke, says that we should just stop giving birth to their children, and we should stop having sex. And then, women all around the world stop having sex with men, and the shit hits the fan.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\tA title or other details of the new project aren\u2019t known yet. But Kukla shares: \u201cIt\u2019s going to be quite different from Fantasy.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIn Fantasy, a coming-of-age story full of laughs, drama and twists that centers on three girls who are outsiders and whose lives get turned upside down when they meet a trans woman called Fantasy. The filmmaker has described the movie as a way of \u201cinviting women to see themselves through their own lens rather than through external expectations.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tTotem Films is handling international<\/a> sales on the movie, which is a co-production between Slovenia and North Macedonia.<\/p>\n

\n\tKukla, who is also a musician, developed a reputation for directing music videos before making her 2020 short film\u00a0Sisters, which won the Grand Prix International honor at the Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival and the Audience Award at Premiers Plans d\u2019Angers. She then transformed the short into the feature film Fantasy.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe process was so difficult that I was like, \u2018I\u2019m never going to do another film anymore,’\u201d Kukla shares with THR. And after giving birth, she thought she would need a break. But her creative energy is driving her to work on the new project. Says the filmmaker: \u201cI had this idea for my next film five years ago, and I\u2019m already writing it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Slovenian director Kukla, whose debut feature\u00a0Fantasy\u00a0world premiered at the\u00a078th edition\u00a0of the\u00a0Locarno Film Festival in the\u00a0Filmmakers of the Present\u00a0lineup…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75,77,34428,34429],"class_list":["post-59916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-international","tag-locarno","tag-locarno-film-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}