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The Sonic Youth song that lends “Little Trouble Girls” its title plays out over the closing credits, its English-language lyrics neatly encapsulating the fidgety frustrations at play in Urška Djukić’s debut feature: “If you want me to/I will be the one/That is always good/And you’ll love me too/But you’ll never know/What I feel inside/That I’m really bad.” A shade too neatly, perhaps, since everything else in this sly, sensual coming-of-ager is so headily and tantalizingly allusive, as the film sharply evokes that adolescent age where worldly adult knowledge is just within view and just out of reach. Following a shy 16-year-old on a girls’ choir trip that exposes both her sexual naïveté and her deep, inchoate yearnings, this is a striking statement of intent from its Slovenian writer-director — there’s an airy delicacy here that invites comparisons to early Céline Sciamma,...

Slovenian director Urška Djukić, whose feature directorial debut, “Little Trouble Girls,” makes its world premiere Feb. 14 as the opening film of Berlinale’s Perspectives section, is developing two new projects, she has told Variety.

The projects are being produced by Djukić through her production company, Oink, alongside Luka Peterca.

The first, with the working title “Veronika of Desenice,” is set in the 15th century in a region of the Holy Roman Empire that is now Slovenia. It tells the tragic real-life story of the love between the Count of Celje Frederick II and his wife Veronika. Veronika was accused by her father-in-law of being a witch, but sought sanctuary in a Carthusian monastery, aided by the monk Prior Arnold.

“Today, 600 years after Veronika’s death, this story of the first witch trial in Slovenia remains integral to our cultural identity,” Djukić told Variety. “I remember how, as children in school,...