Urska DJUKIC

Urška Djukic was born in 1986 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She studied film and video art at the Academy of Arts in Nova Gorica. Her first professional short film Bon Appétit, La Vie! (2016) won the Best Short Film Award at the Festival of Slovenian Film. In 2018, she was invited to participate at SEE Factory – southeast Europe, a joint project for young directors curated by the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs and Sarajevo Film Festival. There, she co-directed a short film The Right One that was presented at Cannes in 2019. In that same year, she was selected to participate at Goethe Institut that supports the First Films First development program, where she will develop her debut film. By combining live-action, animation, and other techniques, Urška creates hybrid visual narratives and is especially focused on exploring contemporary womanhood themes. Urška is developing her first feature film LITTLE TROUBLE GIRL.