Slovenian director Kukla, whose debut characteristic Fantasy world premiered on the 78th version of the Locarno Movie Competition within the Filmmakers of the Current lineup on Friday, is engaged on a brand new undertaking that guarantees to deliver her distinctive voice to a narrative about intercourse, conflict, TikTok, and the connection between ladies and men.
“My subsequent movie is a couple of potential menace of a 3rd World Conflict,” the author and director tells THR. “After all, 99 p.c of the world leaders are male, after which a TikToker, as a joke, says that we must always simply cease giving start to their youngsters, and we must always cease having intercourse. After which, girls all all over the world cease having intercourse with males, and the shit hits the fan.”
A title or different particulars of the brand new undertaking aren’t identified but. However Kukla shares: “It’s going to be fairly totally different from Fantasy.”
In Fantasy, a coming-of-age story full of guffaws, drama, and twists that facilities on three women who’re outsiders and whose lives get turned the other way up after they meet a trans lady known as Fantasy. The filmmaker has described the film as a manner of “inviting girls to see themselves by means of their very own lens quite than by means of exterior expectations.”
Totem Movies is dealing with worldwide gross sales on the film, which is a co-production between Slovenia and North Macedonia.
Kukla, who can be a musician, developed a repute for guiding music movies earlier than making her 2020 quick movie Sisters, which gained the Grand Prix Worldwide honor on the Clermont-Ferrand Movie Competition and the Viewers Award at Premiers Plans d’Angers. She then remodeled the quick into the characteristic movie Fantasy.
“The method was so troublesome that I used to be like, ‘I’m by no means going to do one other movie anymore,’” Kukla shares with THR. And after giving start, she thought she would want a break. However her artistic power is driving her to work on the brand new undertaking. Says the filmmaker: “I had this concept for my subsequent movie 5 years in the past, and I’m already writing it.”