Little Trouble Girls

Named after the Sonic Youth song about supposedly good girls who hide how they feel inside, Slovenian director Urška Djukic’s debut is keenly attuned to the impulses of youth. Shy teen Lucia (Jara Sofija Ostan) is a model Catholic girl, whose innocence is tested when her choir group goes on a trip to a secluded convent in Northern Italy. Surrounded by sweaty construction workers and drawn into the circle of seductive queen bee Ana-Maria (Mina Švajger), Lucia navigates a new world of guilt, tantalising gossip and nascent desire. Evoking the early films of Céline Sciamma, Djukic builds a powerful sensory world of ethereal voices, sly gazes and lush symbolism, speaking to the exhilaration and shame of female desire.

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