Little House

by Nika Jurman

Hiška, 2025, fiction, 1,33:1 (4:3), 25, c, 15 min
Finished

Manicurist Tatjana (35) lives above her parents' home, just like everyone else in the village. But when a friend who has just built her dream house drops by for a manicure, Tatjana decides it’s time to create a home and a life of her own.

screenwriter
Nika Jurman
script consultants
Sonja Tarokić, Pavel Marek
director
Nika Jurman
producer
Katja Lenarčič
director of photography
Teja Miholič
film editor
Špela Murenc Škulj
production designer
Dan Pikalo
costume designer
Lucija Rosc
key make-up artist
Mojca Gorogranc Petrushevska
sound designer
Julij Zornik

featuring
Lea Cverle, Sara Gorše, Niko Zagode, Vesna Poznič, Milivoj Roš, Marjeta Šrot

production
Vertigo
in collaboration with
Film Studio Viba Film
co-funding
Slovenian Film Centre

Vertigo
Katja Lenarčič
katja@vertigo.si

Nika Jurman (1991) holds a degree in philosophy and works as a screenwriter. Her animated short Borbike (2022) received the Vesna Award for Best Animated Film at the Festival of Slovenian Film and the Grand Prix at the Festival of Independent Film. Together with filmmaker Ester Ivakič, she co-wrote the screenplay for a feature film titled Ida, Who Sang So Badly That Even the Dead Rose from Their Graves and Sang Along (2025) based on Suzana Tratnik’s short story collection. She is currently writing a script for an animated series and is finally studying at the Academy of Theatre, Radio, Film and Television (AGRFT).

“The film's universe is inspired by the place where I grew up; a village with strong rules about what is normal and what isn't, and a vivid mariachi band tradition. As a generation, we were promised the world, yet many can't afford a place to live, leaving us bound by the rules of property owners - often loving parents who struggle to see the line between a child in their old room and an adult building a life in the same space. This hierarchy doesn’t just shape one side; it burdens the parents too. They could be living the life that comes after raising children and exploring their everyday hobbies like having a mariachi band.”