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 was born in 1985 in Zagreb, Croatia, where he lived until moving to Slovenia by the age of 15. In high school he was very interested in game development and created several successful Flash games, which led to him moving to California where he worked with several startups at the age of 22. After moving back to Slovenia he graduated at the Institute and Academy of Multimedia in Ljubljana and started experimenting with different audiovisual formats for various platforms. After an increasing recognition for his short-form work he created the first Slovenian web series Day of Love, which he released on YouTube, which he followed with three seasons of Paired Up, a television show which gained both critical and commercial success. Since then he made a couple of short films and directed a feature length film in 2016, a local low-budget comedy At Hostar which broke Slovenian box office records and became the most viewed film in Slovenian history. He followed the success with a sequel in 2022 while already developing his next feature to be shot in 2024.
“Girl in the Night is a comic and absurd story about archetypal weirdos and outcasts, but this time around they are not just placed in the background as a humorous element, but are brought to the forefront of the film and into the spotlight. Not only as heroes, but as superheroes. This is a story about boredom and the search for friendship in very strange circumstances. I am very interested in people who are not necessarily "cool", but are mostly quiet, shy and enjoy the solitary existence. I can't claim to be quite exactly like the characters in this story (although people might claim that about me), but I can definitely somehow identify with them. I believe in the good of the people and even sometimes feel a little naïve about it. However, I also believe that with every little thing we do, we change the world for the better, even if we are not really superheroes.”
Temporama was established in 2013 to provide support for the new generation of up-and-coming Slovenian film-makers. Since then, they’ve produced a number of short and experimental films, music videos, and webseries. In 2018 their first feature film Consequences, written and directed by Darko Štante, premiered at Toronto IFF, followed by a considerable festival and distribution success. The most recent focus of the company has been on producing feature films, like debuts Kaj + Ester Forever (2023) by Tosja Flaker Berce and This is a Robbery! (2024) by Gregor Andolšek, with several other titles in production or development, but they also remain active in short form, documentary film, television content, and experimental cinema.