Planet 7693
Imaginative boy Luka (9) tries to heal disrupted family relations, with the special help of his strange and mysterious friend called 7693.
Luka lives with his harmonious family in an interesting suburbia. When his mother suffers a miscarriage, big misunderstandings and conflicts start to emerge within the family members. Luka’s mother becomes unhappy and careless, his father cannot adapt to the new situation, and his sister feels like an outcast. Left alone, Luka immerses himself in fiction trying to find a solution for all his problems. He meets a girl in an old hotel complex, where he often spends time practicing his “superpowers”. She introduces herself as “serial number 7693”. The two get spontaneously closer and the girl begins to help Luka develop a plan that could fix the endangered family relationships.
Sunday, 1 December – 10:45
ENGLISH SUBTITLES | 110 MIN
PLANETA 7693 | Gojko Berkunjan | 2024 | Montenegro, Serbia, North Macedonia
PRODUCTION
Marko Jacimovic, Gigant Goat Production, Ivica Vidanovic (Cinnerent), Tomi Salkovski (Skopje Film Studio)
SCREENPLAY
Ana Vujadinovic
DOP
Aleksandar Jakonic
EDITING
Vladimir Pavlovski
CAST
Ilija Pejakovic, Andrija Kuzmanovic, Kristina Obradovic, Mara Rakcevic, Hana Ivanisevic
DIRECTOR’S BIO
Gojko Berkunjan (1990) graduated in 2014 from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts – Department for TV and Movie Directing in Cetinje. He is a recipient of the Student Award given by the University of Montenegro as well as the Award of the Town of Cetinje in 2011. He is currently employed as a director at the National Radio Television, where he participated in the realisation of several films and reportages. In addition to his first movie “Iskra”, which premiered in 2014 as an independent production of the Trust agency from Podgorica and Cinammon films from Belgrade, Berkunjanin has shot various short movies, documentaries and advertising campaigns. “Iskra” was in the repertoire of many regional and international festivals and also the Montenegrin candidate of the 91st Academy Awards in the category Best Foreign Movie in 2018.
DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT
In order to reach the desired level of sincerity, the story had to be very personal. We went back to our past so the characters, spaces and situations were created as a collage of our memories that we put into an SF frame through which our main character Luka observes, perceives and interprets the world.
