Urška Djukic was watching a Catholic girls choir singing a Slovenian folk song when she first got the inspiration to make her debut film Little Trouble Girls , Slovenia’s submission for the International Feature Film Oscar race.

“It was an amazing experience for me, and I felt very touched by it, and I didn’t really understand why,” the writer-director said during Deadline’s Contenders Films: International panel. “Of course, the music was amazing … but there was also something else there. It was this awakening of these young girls’ voices that were fully open.

“Throughout history,” she added, “women’s voices were so repressed. In the first row [of the church], I remember seeing three priests sitting there who were really enjoying the performance. For me, it was a very contradictory

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