Film Movement Hire Slovenian ‘Call Girl’

Film Movement are re-teaming with Slovenia helmer Damjan Kozole on a contemporary drama about the world’s oldest profession. After including his 2003 short Spare Parts on one of their DVD releases, the company has picked up Kozole’s “Slovenian Girl” – a title that received a North American debut at TIFF last September, and which will receive a second quarter release (here is what they have on tap in 2010) going by the title of A Call Girl.  

Growing up in small-town Slovenia, 23 year-old Aleksandra is grateful for the excitement and anonymity of big city life when she moves to the capital, and she plans to take advantage of everything that the city has to offer—quickly styling herself as a high-priced call girl. Dropping out of society, she barricades herself inside her penthouse apartment , and watches the world pass her by. But her isolated existence – English studies and mortgage payments by day, her call-girl lifestyle by night – is thrown into chaos when one of her clients, a visiting politician, dies of a heart attack on her watch. All of a sudden, Aleksandra must confront a new range of emotions—fear, guilt, loneliness—all the while being pursued by a band of local pimps, as well as the cops, who are hot on her trail.. The old village life she had escaped from might now become her only refuge.