President of the Artistic Board Hrvoje Pukšec presented the following programmes: Croatian Programme, International Programme, Children’s Programme Pulica, Youth Programme Dizalica, Retrospective, and Pula Cinemateque. This year’s members of the jury of the Croatian and the International Programmes were presented as well. Festival Director Gordana Restović talked about this year’s organization and all the sidebar programmes of the festival’s 61st edition. Deputy Minister of Culture Vladimir Stojsavljević talked about the importance of the Festival for Croatian film. Head of the Marketing Communications Department of Hrvatski Telekom Maja Weber discussed the importance of supporting the biggest film festival in Croatia.
As part of the call for entries opened April 1st – May 1st, 2014, a total of 21 feature films and 28 shorts were submitted. The Artistic Board comprising Hrvoje Pukšec, the president, and board members Mike Downey and Tanja Miličić, selected twelve feature-length and twelve short-length films that will make up the Croatian Programme of the 61st Pula Film Festival.
The following feature-length films were selectedforthe Croatian Programme:
- Velvet Terrorists, Kerekes, Pekarcík and Ostrochovský
- Number 55, Kristijan Milić
- Happy Endings, Darko Šuvak
- The Reaper, Zvonimir Jurić
- The Bridge at the End of the World, Branko Ištvančić
- Monument to Michael Jackson, Darko Lungulov
- The Enchanting Porkers, Ivan Livaković
- The Brave Adventures of a Little Shoemaker, Silvije Petranović
- Walk the Dog, Filip Peruzović
- The Wind Blows, Zdravko Mustać
- Vlog, Bruno Pavić
- Zagreb Cappuccino, Vanja Sviličić
- Six Half Past Six, Dalija Dozet
- Alke, Milan Rukavina, Miroslav Kosanović
- The Clean-up, Jasna Nanut
- So Not You, Ivan Sikavica
- The Chicken, Una Gunjak
- Boxed, Nebojša Sljepčević
- Separation, Nina Violić
- President Nixon’s Present, Igor Šeregi
- Next to Me, Marta Prus
- Tresholds, Dijana Mlađenović
- By Chance, Tanja Golić
- Together, Daniel Kušan
- Alienation, Milko Lazarov, Bulgaria
- Amour Fou, Jessica Hausner, Austria/Luxembourg/Germany
- Bridges of Sarajevo, group of authors (Aida Begić, Leonardo di Costanzo, Jean-Luc Godard, Kamen Kalev, Isild Le Besco, Sergey Loznitsa, Vincenzo Marra, Ursula Meier, Vladimir Perisic, Cristi Puiu, Marc Recha, Angela Schanelec, Teresa Villaverde), France/BIH/Switzerland/Italy/Portugal/Bulgaria
- Class Enemy, Rok Biček, Slovenia
- Concrete Night, Pirjo Honkasalo Finland/Sweden/Denmark
- Field of Dogs, Lech Majewski, Poland
- Free Fall, György Pálfi, Hungary/South Korea/France
- Ilo Ilo, Anthony Chen, Singapore
- Japanese Dog, Tudor Cristian Jurgiu, Romania
- Jimmy’s Hall, Ken Loach, Great Britain/Ireland/ France
- Le Weekend, Roger Michell, Great Britain/France
- Love Eternal, Brendan Muldowney, Ireland
- Miracle, Juraj Lehotsky Slovakia
- The Invisible Woman, Ralph Fiennes, Great Britain
- The Mafia Only Kills in Summer, Pif (Pierfrancesco Diliberto), Italy
- Tom at the Farm, Xavier Dolan, Canada/France
- Upstream Color, Shane Carruth, USA
- 22 Jump Street, Chris Miller, Phil Lord, USA
- Chef, Jon Favreau, USA
- I Origins, Mike Cahill, USA
- Planes 2: Fire and Rescue, Roberts Gannaway, USA
- These Final Hours, Zak Hilditch, Australia
- Butter Lamp, Hu Wei, France/China
- Cut, Christoph Girardet & Matthias Müller, Germany
- Death of a Shadow, Tom Van Avermaet, Belgium/France
- Houses With Small Windows, Bülent Öztürk, Belgium
- Letter, Sergei Loznitsa, Russia/The Netherlands
- Morning, Cathy Brady, Ireland/Great Britain
- Mystery, Chema García Ibarra, Spain
- Nuclear Waste, Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy, Ukraine
- Orbit Ever After, Jamie Stone, Great Britain
- A Story for the Modlins, Sergio Oksman, Spain
- Sunday 3, Jochen Kuhn, Germany
- Though I Know the River Is Dry, Omar Robert Hamilton, Palestine/Egypt/UK/Qatar
- The Waves, Miguel Fonseca, Portugal
- Winter, Cristina Picchi, Russia
The following short-length films were selected for the Croatian Programme:
More on the films selected for the Croatian Programme at http://pulafilmfestival.hr/en/program/croatian-programme/
This year’s Jury of the Croatian Programme will be comprised of: Amra Bakšić Čamo, producer (BIH), Nataša Dorčić, actress (CRO), Ivana Fumić, editor (CRO), Nick Holdsworth, film critic, The Hollywood Reporter (UK) and Antonio Nuić, director (CRO).
This year’s International Programme is divided into the competition and out of competition sections and the short-length programme Short Matters! of the European Film Academy.
Feature-length films of the International Programme:
International Programme – Out of Competition:
Short-length films Short matters! of the European Film Academy:
More on the films selected for the International Programme at http://pulafilmfestival.hr/en/program/international-program/
This year’s Jury of the International Programme will be comprised of: Leo Barraclough, film critic, Variety, Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, director, producer and actor (to whom we have dedicated this year’s Retrospective) and Stanislav Tomić, director.
New programme of the Festival - Dizalica - aimed at young cinephiles aged 16 to 21 was presented as well. The films were selected having in mind the quality and the subject-matter relevant for that age group and they all centre on the problems of coming of age. Alongside the new programme, a new festival open-air venue was introduced as well – the patio of the Sacred Hearts Gallery. More on the programme at http://pulafilmfestival.hr/en/program/film-programme-for-youth/
The already traditional Children’s Programme Pulica is a film programme with a growing number of spectators. Since we are talking about children, this piece of data particularly pleases us. Due to a huge interest in matinées, this year's Pulica has been moved to the Istrian National Theatre. More on this year’s Pulica at http://pulafilmfestival.hr/en/program/for-children-en/
This year’s festival retrospective is dedicated to Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, one of the most important filmmakers in Northern Europe. He is a complete author who has tried his hand at a number of film aspects (director, screenwriter, actor, producer, editor) and this is how we made a selection of his films. Fridriksson is also a member of this year’s Jury of the International Programme. More on the Retrospective at http://pulafilmfestival.hr/en/program/retrospective/
And, finally, we present you another programme novelty of the 61st Pula Film Festival – the Pula Cinematheque, a return to the famous past of the Festival according to a selection made by one renowned filmmaker. This year’s selector is Rajko Grlić and his selection concept can best be described with the sentence “a Pula year I find extremely important”. For Rajko Grlić that was the year 1965. More on the selected 1965 films at http://pulafilmfestival.hr/en/program/cinematheque/
The Festival has been successfully collaborating with Hrvatski Telekom for the twelfth consecutive year. On that occasion, Maja Weber, in charge of the Marketing Communications Department of Hrvatski Telekom, stated: “Providing a long-term support to Pula is a proof that the festival is an extremely important project in Croatia. We are pleased that Hrvatski Telekom has been the partner of the Pula Film Festival for as many as 12 years and that we are supporting the festival’s 61st edition, an important event for cinema and for culture in general. I am especially pleased to be able to announce that this year, just like previously, we will enable MAXtv users to watch one part of the supreme cinematic accomplishments by making them available in MAXtv video library right after their screenings in Pula”.
The company Autowill d.o.o. will see to it that our film guests get to all the 15 festival venues carelessly and safely.
See you July 12th – 26th at the 61st Pula Film Festival
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