Slovenian girl (orig. Slovenka) is a 2009 Slovenian film directed by Damjan Kozole. Aleksandra, a twenty-three-year-old Slovenian, leads a double life: she is a respectable student and a call girl. The film stars Nina Ivanišin. Slovenian girl was premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival 2009 and it was released theatrically in more than 15 countries, in US under the title A Call Girl. According to Moving Pictures Magazine, "the film is ultimately a fascinating study of free enterprise in free fall. 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" (Shaz Bennett).
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Ljubljana 2008. The time of the Slovenian presidency of the European Union. Aleksandra (Nina Ivanišin) is a 23-year-old English language student. She comes from a small town. Her parents are divorced. No one knows that Aleksandra runs personal ads under the nickname, “Slovenka” (The Slovenian Girl) and that prostitution is her secret source of income. She’s very good at manipulating others (including her father and ex-boyfriend), is an accomplished liar and a bit of a thief. She resents her mother and regards her as being selfish. Her ambition is to escape the banality of her home town and settle in the big city, but her clandestine job leads her to a dangerous encounter with local criminals.
The film was screened at more than sixty international film festivals: Sarajevo Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Bitola, Reykjavik, London Raindance, Montreal New Cinema, Pusan, Warsaw, Mostra de Valencia, Sao Paulo, Kyiv, Leeds, Cairo, Thessaloniki, Segovia, Les Arcs, Palm Springs, Goteborg, Trieste, Rotterdam International Film Festival, Santa Barbara, Cinequest Film Festival San Jose, Fribourg, Chicago, Sofia, Cleveland International Film Festival, Sarasota, New York, Copenhagen, Edinburgh, London, Den Haag, Minneapollis, Ivanovo-Zerkalo, Transilvania, Napoli, Novi Sad, Munich, Jerusalem, Durban, Espoo, Motovun, Anonimul, Cinessonne Paris, UlaanBattar, Arras, Montpellier, Sevilla, Washington, Vilnius, Abuja, Bruxelles, Rome, Tromso ...