Luka, an imaginative nine year old boy tries to heal the disrupted family relations with the special help of his strange and mysterious friend 7693.


Luka lives with his family in a very interesting neighborhood in the suburbs. The family is quite harmonious and pleasant. During a turbulent period, when the mother suffers a miscarriage in the advanced state of pregnancy, big misunderstandings and conflicts start emerging in the family. The father can’t seem to adapt to the new situation in which his wife, who has always pampered him, no longer cares and blames him for everything she is unhappy about. His sister Sandra is not able to fit in with peers. She becomes rough towards her family and blames them for all of her failures. Left alone, Luka immerges himself in fiction trying to find a solution for all the problems. He meets a girl in an abandoned factory complex, where he often spends his time practicing his “super powers”. She introduces herself as the serial number 7693. The two spontaneously get closer and the girl begins to help Luka develop a plan that could fix the already endangered family relationships.


Born on September 13th 1990 in Cetinje. Graduated from elementary and high school in his hometown. In 2014, Berkuljan graduated from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts – Department for TV and Movie Directing in Cetinje. He is currently working as a director in the National Radio Television. Berkuljan worked on various short movies and documentaries as well as several advertising campaigns, while in 2017 his first movie “Iskra” was premiered as an independent production of Trust agency from Podgorica and Cinammon films from Belgrade. The movie was on 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.


Considering that I grew up in a family with a special affinity for science fiction, reflected in my father’s passionate collecting of SF journals and books, it was inevitable that at some point I would be “infected” with the same love. In a way I wanted to pay homage to a time that is gone and from which I never intended to separate myself. We wrote the screenplay hoping that one day it would become an imaginative, fun, emotional and nostalgic cinematic journey through a short but significant period of life when the world is seen through the prism of uncompromising sincerity and compassionate naivety. That time is our childhood. 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. Of course, this story does not idealize, beautify and simplify the concepts of childhood and growing up.
Using surreal and sometimes comical solutions, we try to interpret them critically and analytically, trying to observe them from several viewpoints instead. Although the world of a child often looks naive, it is never simple and one-dimensional, but complex and layered, and a child’s perception is sophisticated, sincere and direct, but sometimes incomprehensible to adults.