"There was something about hearing these young girls, right on the edge of becoming women, that felt incredibly strong and important,"
"especially knowing how often female voices have been silenced throughout history."
"I wanted to immerse the audience so deeply that they experience the story with all their senses,"
"From the very beginning, the process was guided more by intuition than by references - it grew organically out of sound, emotion and observation."
Urška Djukic’s feature debut Little Trouble Girls follows shy Lucija and Ana Maria as their attraction grows during a choirgirls' retreat at a countryside convent. The film uses the motif of girls’ voices in unison, evocative music and reverent close-ups to create a sensory, intimate atmosphere. The narrative examines adolescent female sexuality with subtlety and subversion, influenced by Lucretia Martel’s The Holy Girl. The screenplay began in collaboration with Maria Bohr before Djukic completed it solo after creative disagreement. Visual and auditory detail foregrounds inner life and the fragile threshold between girlhood and womanhood.
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