Pula film festival

• National Geographic Traveler recommends Istria, Pula and PFF

  National Geographic Traveler editors recommend Istria and Pula as one of 10 top trips of summer 2011. They describe their choice with these words.
  More than 40 beaches on Istria’s 333-mile coast have earned a coveted Blue Flag for superior water quality and environmental management standards. While not as familiar to North Americans as Croatia’s Dalmatian Coast, this densely forested peninsula at the top right-hand corner of the Adriatic Sea has been a popular summer hot spot since Austro-Hungarian Empire days. Head west and south for crystalline blue bays, tranquil coves, and white pebble and sandy shores bordered by fragrant pines. The Medulin Riviera, located near Istria’s southern tip, offers 49 miles of coastline, plus hilltop medieval villages and ancient ruins to explore. Just south of Medulin is rugged Cape Kamenjak, an edge-of-the-world nature reserve featuring sheer 70-foot cliffs, hidden coves, and flat stone outcroppings nature-made for sunbathing. The current is powerful here, so you may want to play it safe and watch the windsurfing and cliff-jumping action from the safety of the rocky shore. Make time to visit the regional capital Pula, home of the Pula Arena. This remarkably intact first-century Roman amphitheatre hosts numerous summer concerts and events, including the July 16-23 portion of the 58th Pula Film Festival.

   

• Golden Bear winner Nader and Simin: A Separation, Sacrifice and Coriolanus in Pula

  
  
  The Europlis-Merdians international programme of the 58^th Pula Film Festival will screen this year's Golden Bear winner, a family drama with elements of a thriller entitled Nader and Simin: A Separation (Jodaeiye Nader az Simin) by Iranian director Asghar Farhadi. The film also won Silver Bears for best actor and best actress

• There is another film coming from Berlin and that is Sacrifice by Chen Kaige (Golden Palm winner for Farewell My Concubine), a marshal arts drama about the only surviving heir of the Chinese royal dynasty.
  
  One more film from this year’s Berlinale competition will screen in the Arena: directorial debut by Ralph Fiennes, war drama Coriolanus, starring Gerard Butler, Brian Cox and Vanessa Redgrave.

• Films from Cannes, Venice and Rome at the Pula Film Festival

  
  
  The 58^th Pula Film Festival International Programme will screen a number of films selected from major international film festivals, as well as some of the most successful films from the region. From the Cannes Film Festival comes Olivier Assayas’ crime thriller Carlos, winner of the Golden Globe award as a miniseries. In Pula we will have an opportunity to see the 165-minute version of the true story of the world’s most notorious terrorist called Carlos, the Jackal. From the last year’s Cannes Film Festival comes The Housemaid (Hanyo), a South Korean erotic thriller by Im Sang-soo.
  
  Venice brings us Trophy Wife (Potiche), a French family comedy by François Ozon, starring Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu. Venice also brings us The Double Hour (La doppia ora) by Giuseppe Capotondi, starring Ksenia Rappaport, who also starred in Giuseppe Tornatore’s The Unknown Woman. From the same festival also comes the German romantic drama Three (Drei) by Tom Tykwer (best known for his films Run Lola Run and Perfume) about a married couple who fall in love with the same person. Tilda Swinton stars in the Italian romantic drama I am Love (Io sono l’amore) by Luca Guadagnino, which also premiered in Venice.
  
  The American romantic drama Last Night by Massy Tadjedin, starring Keira Knightley, Sam Worthington and Eva Mendes, opened the last year’s Rome Film Festival. The Rome Film Festival also brings us the Italian thriller A Quiet Life (Una vita tranquilla) by Claudio Cupellini about an Italian crook whose quiet family life in Germany under a false identity is disturbed by the arrival of his son.
  
  Another film coming from Italy is a romantic drama about adultery Come Undone (Cosa voglio di piu) by Silvio Soldini (well-known for his film Bread & Tulips), which premiered at last year’s Berlinale. The Toronto Film Festival brings us Casino Jack, a Canadian crime comedy by George Hickenlooper, based on a true story about Jack Abramoff, a well-known American lobbyist who ended up behind bars.

  

  
  Serbia brings us the biggest blockbuster in that country – Montevideo – God Bless You! (Montevideo, Bog te video) by Dragan Bjelogrlić, centred on a Yugoslav football selection preparing for the football championship in Uruguay in 1930. That country brings us another blockbuster, the thriller Skinning (Šišanje) by Stevan Filipović, centred on the phenomenon of neonacism among young people, especially among football supporters.
  
  With this year’s FEST critics’ award and jury prize in hand comes the feature documentary film Mothers by Milcho Manchevski which screened at festivals in Toronto and Berlin. Slovenia brings us the winner of the Slovenian National Festival in Portorož Circus Fantasticus by Janez Burger, starring Leon Lučev.

  

  Opening credits for these films have been published on the Festival’s You Tube site.

  The remainder of the films from this programme will be published after the completion of the festival in Cannes.

• A record number od 77.558 visitors of the 57th Festival

  At a session chaired by Minister of Culture Bozo Biskupic held on November 12th, the Pula Film Festival Council the programme and financial report of the 57th Festival submitted by artistic director Zlatko Vidackovic and festival director Zdenka Viskovic-Vukic were adopted unanimously.

  The 57^th Festival lasted for 16 days. 11 films were presented as part of the National Programme, out of which 4 in the new competition section of minority co-productions. The number of viewers of the Europolis-Meridians International Programme at Kastel was doubled and the total number of visitors reached the record of 73 555. To this sum we should also add the 4 003 viewers that saw the films from Pula at satellite screenings at the Dubrovnik Summer Festival, Split Summer Festival, Osjek Summer of Culture, Amadeo Stage in Zagreb, Zadar Snova International Festival of Contemporary Theatre and Sibenik Summer of Culture. The 57^th edition of the Festival can boast of the largest number of visitors and satellite screening since Croatian independence.

• International Programme 2011: dates & venues

  The International Programme of the 58th Pula Film Festival shall start  at Kastel (from Saturday 9 July to Friday 15 July 2011), with evening open-air screenings at 21.30.

  
  Films from the International Programme shall also be presented at the Valli Cinema during the whole duration of the Festival. During the second part of the Festival (16-23 July), films from the PoPular Programme shall be  in the Arena after the completion of the National Programme. Satellite events screenings will take place until 30th July.

   

  Awards in the international programme

  The International competition Jury will grant the following awards:

  Golden Arena for the best film
  Golden Arena for the best director
  Golden Arena for the best leading actor/actress
  
  Three special awards will be given for the best film in the International programme:

  - Critic's Award

  - Audience Award

  - Young Cinephiles Award
  
  
  
  
  A Special Lifetime Achievement Golden Arena can be granted by the decision of the Festival Council. The first recipient of this award was the famous British actor Christopher Lee in 2008.
  
  The first international film programme in the Arena was presented already in 1953 at the initiative of Marijan Rotar. After that, foreign film revues have occasionally took place as part of the Festival.

  
  In 2001, a competition programme presenting European film was launched.

  From 2004, films from all over the world have been screened as part of an international competition programme.

   

  

  SUBMISSION OF FILMS TO THE INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME

  To submit your film (only feature fiction films, longer than 70 minutes, on 35 mm) to the international competition please send the DVD screener to our artistic director:
  

  
  
  Zlatko Vidackovic

  Pula Film Festival Artistic Director
  Nazorova 37
  HR-10000 Zagreb, Hrvatska / Croatia

   

  You can also give the screener to our artistic director during the festivals in Berlin, Cannes, Venice or Rome. To schedule a meeting, please write to: artistic.director@pulafilmfestival.hr

   

  Please note that our festival is a summer, mainly open-air festival, made for the general public. We especially like quality genre films (comedies, thrillers, melodramas...). Our last year (2010) programme included: The Princess of Montpensier, director Bertrand Tavernier, The Duchess, director Saul Dibb, The City of Your Final Destination, director James Ivory, The Big Dream, director Michele Placido, Ondine, director Neil Jordan, Give Me Your Hand, director Pascal-Alex Vincent, Accident, director Cheang Pou-Soi, Brotherhood, director Nicolo Donato, Lourdes, director Jessica Hausner, Apart Together, director Quan'an Wang, Tsar, director Pavel Lungin, 9:06, director Igor Sterk, A Single Man, director Tom Ford, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, director Terry Gilliam, The Ghost Writer, director Roman Polanski, Dorian Gray, director Oliver Parker and Transfer, director Damir Lukacevic.
  
  We screen only Croatian premieres. The deadline for the 58th festival is 1 May 2011, but we recommend you to send the screener asap.
  
  There is no entry fee nor entry form. Please enclose your direct or mobile phone and e-mail.  If your film is selected, we will contact you asap. For issues regarding the international competition, please write to: artistic.director@pulafilmfestival.hr

• Croatian films and minority co-productions in 2011.

  

  The National Programme of the 58th Pula Film Festival will be held from 16 to 23 July 2011. The National Programme consists of Croatian feature films and minority cooproductions.
  
  We expect the following Croatian feature films supported by the Croatian Adioviusal Centre:
  1) Lea and Daria by Branko Ivanda
  2) Kotlovina by Tomislav Radic
  3) Koko and the Ghosts by Daniel Kusan
  4) The Little Gypsy Witch by Tomislav Zaja
  5) The Translator by Biljana Cakic-Veselic
  and several independent productions.
  
  Films shall be presented in the ancient Roman Arena, that can host up to 5000 spectators, and in the Cinema Valli, named after Pula born diva Alida Valli.
  
  The Festival shall also screen the best Croatian shorts, pay tribute to the winners of Croatian film awards for life achievements , but also present excerpts from  Croatian feature-length films in production (Work in Progress).
  
  Pula Film Festival, founded in 1954, is the oldest and the most popular Croatian film festival (77 558 spectators at the 57th edition).
  
  CROATIAN FILM FOCUS
  
  The Croatian Films Focus of the 58th Pula Film Festival will be held during 4 days of the Festival (to be announced soon). In this programme Focus participants will have the possibility to see all the new Croatian feature films and the very best of new Croatian shorts in just 4 days. Some of the screenings are in the regular Festival schedule, while some screenings will be organized especially for foreign festival directors, selectors, journalist and critics – participants of the Croatian Film Focus.
  
  CROATIAN FILM MARATHON
  

  On Saturday 23 July and Sunday 24 July 2011, at the Valli Cinema the Croatian Film Marathon shall take place and screen all films from the National Programme of the 58th Festival.

   

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