FANTASY

Director Kukla and main actresses Sarah Al Saleh, Alina Juhart, Mia Skrbinac, and Mina Milovanović are available for interviews.

FANTASY by writer-director Kukla is world premiering at the Locarno Film Festival 2025 in the Cineasti del Presente Competition. The director’s first feature, developed at Cannes Cinéfondation, explores the complexities of gender, desire, and self-discovery.

FANTASY follows a journey of personal transformation and liberation of a group of young women after a disruptive encounter confronts them with inherited norms and leads them to discover their own definitions of womanhood.

SYNOPSIS
Mihrije, Sina and Jasna (early 20s) are best friends who live in Slovenia. They are tomboys and refuse to conform to the conservative system they live in. Their world turns upside down when they meet Fantasy, a transgender woman. Together, they embark on a journey that explores the complexities of gender, desire, and self-discovery.

Kukla (Katarina Bogdanović), born in 1991 in Brežice, Slovenia, is a film director and musician. In 2014 she finished the Film Academy in Ljubljana (film and TV directing). Her last short film “Sisters” (2020) won the Grand Prix at Clermont Ferrand Int. Festival 2021, the Audience Award in Premiers Plans Angers, and Best Short Film in Fire !! Barcelona. It was selected for over 30 international festivals, including Seoul, Palm Springs, XPOSED Berlin, Kyiv, Vilnius, Shanghai, Vienna, Valencia, Sao Paulo, Oslo, Zagreb, Black Nights Tallinn, Reykjavik, Helsinki, Thessaloniki. FANTASY is her first feature film and participated in many workshops including Cinéfonda-tion, Les Arcs Talent Village, Scenarnica, and First Film First.

FANTASY is produced by December (Slovenia), Krug Film (North Macedonia), Gliser (Slovenia), Gustav Film (Slovenia), 001 (Slovenia), MB Grip (Slovenia), SNDKTV (Slovenia), Instant (Slovenia).

With the support of the Slovenian Film Center, Viba Film Studio, RTV Slovenia, North Macedonia Film Agency, Creative Europe Media.

World sales are handled by TOTEM.

The local release in Slovenia is scheduled for January 2026 by Gustav Film.

 

98 min. / Slovenia, North Macedonia 2025 / feature 

Production Company:
December
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www.december.si

World Sales:
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