Slovenian Girl

It stars Nina Ivanišin as Aleksandra, a 23-year-old Slovenian who leads a double life as a respectable student and a call girl.

In this mesmerizing chamber piece, director Damjan Kozole has contrived a new style of narrative to convey a view of capitalist culture at once outrageous and non-judgmental."

Set in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in 2008, during the Slovenian presidency of the European Union, Aleksandra is a 23-year-old English-language student who comes from a small town.

Neither her friends nor her family knows that Aleksandra runs personal ads under the nickname Slovenka ("Slovenian girl"), and that prostitution is her secret source of income.

With a elegantly written script that creates real three-dimensional characters, and a sparse aesthetic style, director Damjan Kozole's affecting character study creates a distinctive mood that is hard to shake off.” The French newspaper Le Figaro says, "lie by lie, the heroine is becoming more appealing, thanks to the incredible performance of Nina Ivanišin.