ie Rasmussen, Jelena Gavrilovic – Human Zoo (2009)

Human Zoo (2009) is a French crime drama written, directed by and starring Rie Rasmussen. She plays Adria Shala, a traumatized Serbian-Albanian survivor of the Kosovo War who now lives as an illegal immigrant in Marseille. Flashbacks show how she was saved from rape by a Serbian deserter, Srdjan, and later drawn into his world of gunrunning and violence in Belgrade.

In the present day Adria falls for an American and must decide whether she can escape her past. The film features strong nudity and an explicit sex scene with Rie Rasmussen (including unsimulated oral sex), as well as a nude scene with Jelena Gavrilović as Natasha. Rasmussen deliberately shot the intimate sequences in a raw, unromanticized style from a female point of view.