Girl in the Night
by Luka Marčetić
Dekle noči, 2026, fiction, digital DCP, 1,37:1 Academy, 24, c, 93 min
SI
Finished
To cut through the mundanity of his night shifts, Rok keeps himself busy by stealing chocolate bars at the gas station where he works. One night, he meets a mysterious girl with severe bruises on her face. She only appears at night, is all about saving crime, and claims to possess super powers. If he wants to meet her again, Rok will have to come up with a cunning plan – so he decides to steal her bike.
Luka Marčetić (b. 1985, Zagreb) graduated from Ljubljana's Institute and Academy of Multimedia. He created Slovenia's first web series “Day of Love” and the Slovenian hit TV series “Paired Up”. His 2016 low-budget comedy “At Hostar” broke Slovenian box office records, becoming the country's most-viewed film ever, followed by a similarly successful sequel. “Girl in the Night” is his first auteur feature.
I am deeply interested in people who are mostly quiet, shy, and to a point enjoy solitary existence. These people often go unnoticed in everyday life, yet they possess a unique strength in their quietness. I always wanted to put them in roles of vulnerable heroes and antiheroes. This is a story about boredom and the search for friendship in very strange circumstances.
D-Facto Motion WIP Award best film (D-Facto Motion, 2024)
Temporama has been working with the new generation of up-and-coming Slovenian film-makers since 2013. They’ve produced a number of short and experimental films, music videos, and webseries before transitioning to feature films with “Consequences” (Toronto IFF 2018). Their recent credits include the documentary film “Alpe-Adria Underground!” (DokuFest Prizren 2024) and “Ida Who Sang So Badly Even the Dead Rose Up and Joined Her in Song” (Torino FF 2025), with several other titles currently in pr…