Kristina
2022
90 minutes
Overview
Kristina is a transgender sex worker in Serbia. She plays herself in an eponymous film that portrays her daily life with reticence in accordance with the rules of fiction. We’re in Kristina’s home with her. With camp elegance, she contentedly arranges ikebana in the luxuriant, baroque shade of her garden. The surprisingly shrill ringtone of her telephone disrupts the idyllic scene and Kristina reels off the prices of her services to the caller. Tracing an inner journey in the secret calm of churches and forests, the film also opens up a space of confession in its core, in frontal shots where Kristina tells her story. It does not, however, follow the path of repentance. On the contrary, it asserts the profound freedom of a modern woman, captured majestically in a bold portrait with strokes inspired by iconostases that tend towards the divine.
Top Cast
Kristina Milosavljević
Kristina
Marko Radišić
Marko
Jelena Galović
Jelena
Zvonimir Pudelka
Zvonko
Gordana Đurđević-Dimić
Kustos
Livia Banka
Marija
Ilija Bašić
Antikvar
Dušan Durman
Mušterija I
Nikola Trajković
Mušterija II
Branislav Unginović
Mušterija III
Nikola Bulatović
Mušterija IV