VIDA SKERK

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NIGHT RIDE
Original title: NOĆNA VOŽNJA

Short live-action, fiction film
Duration: 24 minutes

Medium: digital, colour
Language: Croatian (English subtitles available)
Country: Croatia
Year: 2022

Through a sequence of dreams and nightmares, Dunja questions her decision to move to a bigger city, and regrets leaving behind the safety of her hometown where she could always count on the support of her close friend, Sara.

Main cast: Nika Barišić, Dorotea Ilečić Sever, Jan Krevatin

Director and screenwriter: Vida Skerk
Producer: Antonio Grozdanoski
Cinematographer: Urh Pirc
Editor: Lucija Strugar
Sound Designer: Ema Veseljak

Production company: Akademija dramske umjetnosti / Academy of Dramatic Art (Zagreb)




FESTIVALS, AWARDS and SCREENINGS:

- Rencontres Films Femmes Méditerranée (2023, France)
- 34. Hamburg International Queer Film Festival (2023, Germany)
- Queer Fear Film Festival (2023, USA)
- Mix Festival Internazionale di Cinema LGBTQ+ e Cultura Queer (2023, Italy)
- ProFilmDays Event (2023, Croatia)
- Helsinki International Film Festival (2023, Finland)
- Tabor Film Festival (2023, Croatia)
- QueerMomenti organised by Udruga Domino (2023, Croatia)
- FRKA - Filmska revija Akademije dramske umjetnosti (2023, Croatia)
- "Oktavijan" Award for Best Short Film awarded by the Croatian Film Critics Association / Nagrada "Oktavijan" Hrvatskog društva filmskih kritičara u kategoriji za najbolji kratkometražni i srednjometražni igrani film (2023, Croatia)
- BFI Flare (2023, United Kingdom)
- Film Nights in Močvara / Filmske večeri u Močvari (2023, Croatia)
- Festival Premiers Plans d'Angers - awarded the "Prix Des Étudiants D’Angers" award (2023, France) 
- Pittsburgh EU Film Festival 202 (2023, United States)
- International Queer Film Festival Merlinka (2022, Serbia)
- 54. Revija hrvatskog filmskog stvaralaštva (2022, Croatia) 
- Women’s Art Festival - Demakijaž (2022, Poland)

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Vida Skerk
Director and screenwriter
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