Slovenian Director Kukla Readies ‘Good Girl,’ Inspired by Greek Comedy ‘Lysistrata,’ With Lead Actresses From ‘Fantasy’ on Board (Exclusive)

Slovenian filmmaker Kukla, whose debut feature “Fantasy” premiered at Locarno Film Festival and played this week at Thessaloniki Film Festival, is working on her sophomore feature. The project has been mentioned briefly previously, but Variety has exclusive additional details, including the working title, casting, and Kukla’s sources of inspiration.

Her next project, which has the working title “Good Girl,” is a modern take on the Ancient Greek comedy “Lysistrata,” by Aristophanes, in which an Athenian woman advocates that women from warring city states should stop having sex with men until they stop fighting in the war between them, Kukla tells Variety in the Greek coastal city of Thessaloniki, with Mount Olympus visible across the sea.

In this updated version of “Lysistrata,” a third world war is threatened, and a TikToker “randomly speaks her thoughts out loud that we should stop having sex with men and stop giving birth to…