One day I’ll become… (Star Wars fan film)
2017 · 12m · Eslovaquia
Directed by Roman Gregoricka
Genres: coming-of-age, sci-fi, war
Tones: contemplative, mythic, tender
Seen through the eyes of a small child on a desert planet, the Galactic War approaches as the child has visions of the future and dreams of Jedi knighthood. The Empire searches for a gifted child, and a side awaits choice.
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Look, a Star Wars fan film that doesn't disgrace itself is already beating odds, but Gregoricka's move to strip the mythology down to a child's intimate internal world—visions and doubt instead of laser battles—is genuinely subversive; it's what happens when someone treats fan IP as *material* rather than fan service.
The formal restraint here is striking: Gregoricka composes the desert and the child's face as twin texts, letting contemplative framing do what exposition usually does, which positions this squarely in a lineage of SF cinema (Tarkovsky's restraint, not Lucas's spectacle) that asks what mythology actually costs.
The entire film hinges on the choice to shoot the Jedi visions in soft, almost watercolor abstraction against the hard-focus desert reality—that single tonal pivot between the child's inner and outer worlds transforms a premise that could've been generic fan pastiche into something about how fantasy shapes a small body on an occupied world.