Kaj ti je deklica

Djukić | 2025 | Slovenia

Films such as this have a funny way of making me question how many genuine emotions I’ve felt in my life. Far from depressing, it’s rather life affirming to view a coming-of-age tale with the benefit of a little life experience. My own adolescence was characterised by adult oversight that was dispassionate at best and uncaring at worst, leaving little space in which to find myself (and probably not much to find, at that). The word “stifling” comes to mind, albeit not the brand of stifling experienced by Lucia here. The sound design is entrancing in a way that carries you away like one of her daydreams; the choral music a resplendent aural backdrop. Something very special, this one.