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Filmstill Kristina
Kristina
Nikola Spasić
Transwoman Kristina earns her living as a sex worker. She arranges her life serenely and well-ordered, independent of the peculiarities of her profession. A semi-fictional documentary.
Filmstill Kristina

Kristina

Kristina
Nikola Spasić
Doc Alliance Award 2023
Documentary Film
Serbia
2022
90 minutes
Serbian
Subtitles: 
English

Director Nikola Spasić explains in an interview that in this film he was interested in the fluid boundaries between documentary and fiction, and that he found the perfect protagonist in Kristina: someone with an interesting personal story who can also act. And so she plays herself, Kristina, a transsexual sex worker in Serbia. She lives alone with her cat in a beautiful old house, collects antiques and practices ikebana on the terrace of her garden. She meets friends, visits a cloister, lives her religion, arranges a crucifix.

This idyll is regularly interrupted by the obtrusive ringtone of her work mobile. But the meeting with the client who appears at her door a short while later is well-orchestrated and no contradiction to Kristina’s elegant, graceful and serene existence, which she shapes according to her own ideas. All in all, these flawlessly framed and composed tableaus have an element of transcendence. But with his aesthetic directing, Spasić emphasises the incontrovertible freedom of this modern woman whom he captures in a portrait that is both intimate and daring.

Lina Dinkla

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Director
Nikola Spasić
Script
Milanka Gvoic
Cinematographer
Igor Lazić
Editor
Nikola Spasić
Producer
Nikola Spasić, Milanka Gvoic
Co-Producer
Igor Lazić
Sound
Đorđe Stevanović
Sound Design
Đorđe Stevanović
Score
Đorđe Stevanović
Animation
Milanka Gvoic