Happy Day of the Dead

by Luka Štigl

Srečen dan mrtvih, 2025, fiction, digital DCP, 2,39:1/2,35:1, 25, c, 26 min
Finished

Zeko and Gogi, two stereotypical criminals, have to get rid of a body on November 1st. A seemingly routine task proves much more difficult when a veterinarian, a butcher and a prostitute enter the story. It sounds like the beginning of a joke, but things are indeed very serious. After all, this is a story about cancer.

screenwriter
Luka Štigl
dialogues
Luka Štigl
director
Luka Štigl
producers
Sanja Raičević, Sebastjan Oblak, Luka Štigl
director of photography
Simon Pintar
film editor
Luka Štigl
production designer
Špela Jelovčan
costume designer
Sanja Raičević
key make-up artists
Laura Butkovič, Tina Urenkar
sound designer
Borut Berden

featuring
Tim Lončar, Filip Đurić, Uroš Potočnik, Gregor Gruden, Živa Selan, Admir Baltić

production
Squareme

SQUAREME
Luka Štigl
luka@squareme.si

“In 2013 I was diagnosed with cancer, the main reason I finally started making films. Because life is short and you never know when it will all be over, so you might as well do what you love. 10 years after my recovery, I am able to tell this story the same way I dealt with the disease - through dark humor.”