{"id":178349,"date":"2025-12-06T23:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T23:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/178349\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T23:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T23:26:08","slug":"little-trouble-girls-interview-with-star-director-director-of-photography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/178349\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Little Trouble Girls’ Interview With Star, Director & Director Of Photography"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tUr\u0161ka Djukic was watching a Catholic girls choir singing a Slovenian folk song when she first got the inspiration to make her debut film Little Trouble Girls<\/a>, Slovenia\u2019s submission<\/a> for the International Feature Film Oscar race.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt was an amazing experience for me, and I felt very touched by it, and I didn\u2019t really understand why,\u201d the writer-director said during Deadline\u2019s Contenders Films: International panel. \u201cOf course, the music was amazing \u2026 but there was also something else there. It was this awakening of these young girls\u2019 voices that were fully open. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThroughout history,\u201d she added, \u201cwomen\u2019s voices were so repressed. In the first row [of the church], I remember seeing three priests sitting there who were really enjoying the performance. For me, it was a very contradictory image \u2013 these men in celibacy versus hearing these voices so open. I knew there was something I had to explore deeper.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLittle Trouble Girls follows Lucia (Jara Sofija Ostan<\/a>), a 16-year-old introvert who joins her Catholic school\u2019s all-girls choir. She befriends Ana-Maria (Mina \u0160vajge), a popular and flirty third-year student. But when the choir travels to the countryside convent for a weekend of intensive rehearsals, Lucia\u2019s interest in a dark-eyed restoration worker tests her friendship with Ana-Maria and the other girls.<\/p>\n

\n\tRELATED: Contenders Film: International \u2013 Deadline\u2019s Complete Coverage<\/a><\/p>\n

\n\tAs she navigates unfamiliar surroundings and her budding sexuality, Lucia begins to question her beliefs and values, disrupting the harmony within the choir. The film had its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival back in February, and Kino Lorber will release it in the U.S.<\/p>\n

\n\tSofija Ostan admitted that she didn\u2019t have much experience singing before joining the film. \u201cI wouldn\u2019t consider myself to be a good singer, even know,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cBut it was interesting to learn how to use your body for the sound to come out,\u201d she said during the panel. \u201cThat\u2019s also what Ur\u0161ka explored a little bit in this film. The process was really interesting. Singing was a big part of this role because Lucia also finds her safe space when singing and finds her voice, and it helps open her up. So it was really important that she looked free and relaxed when singing, which I probably didn\u2019t at the start.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tDirector of photography Lev Predan Kawarski said during the panel that he was involved from the rehearsal stage in the project, which helped shape the way he shot the film.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cWe started talking really early on about what this world was going to look like, and we knew that it was going to be the point of view of a young teenage girl growing up, coming of age,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\n\tHe continued: \u201cA big part of the process was also me being involved very early on. So I started coming to rehearsals six months before shooting. I was present at all of them and started exploring the camera a little bit. \u2026 It all came together really fluidly.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tCheck back Monday for the panel video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ur\u0161ka Djukic was watching a Catholic girls choir singing a Slovenian folk song when she first got the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178350,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[6971,68437,97255,93,61,60,97256,97257,97258,270,13925,97259],"class_list":["post-178349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-awards","tag-awardsnews","tag-contenders-international","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-jara-sofija-ostan","tag-lev-predan-kowarski","tag-little-trouble-girls","tag-movies","tag-slovenia","tag-uru0161ka-djukiu0107-lecamus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178349\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}