President of the Art Board, Hrvoje Pukšec, announced the Croatian programme (Croatian Film and Short Pula) and the International programme (films in and out of competition, as well as films from the programmes Short Matters, Dizalica and Pulica). Festival director, Gordana Restović, spoke about this year's organization and all the other expected programmes and events at the 62nd Festival. Assistant of the Minister of Culture, Tamara Perišić spoke about the Festival of France - Rendez-vous - in Croatia, and highlighted the film from the French programme that participates in the 62nd Pula - this year's winner of the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival, Dheepan, Jacques Audiard (Odiar). Head of Croatian Telekom’s direct approach to the market, Sanja Milinovic, was pleased that the Croatian Telecom is able to continuously follow Croatian film festivals and the 62nd edition of Pula Film Festival.
News related to the above mentioned programmes of 62nd Pula Film Festival are the following:
• 75 submitted films for the Croatian programme (28 feature lenght and 47 short films)
• 14 feature length and 16 short films selected for the Croatian programme
• 14 feature length in the official competition for the International Programme and 12 short films out of competition
• for first time a TV series will be screened at a film festival in Croatia
• the world premiere of the international film Next to me by Stevan Filipović
CROATIAN PROGRAMME
The submissions were opened from 20 March to 17 April 2015, and a total of 28 feature length films and 47 short films were submitted. The Art Board of Pula film festival; Hrvoje Pukšec, president, and members Mike Downey and Tanja Milicic, selected 14 feature length films and 16 short films that will form the Croatian programme of the 62nd Pula Film Festival.
Feature length films:
We Will Be The World Champions, Darko Bajić
The Girls - Life of Another, Andrea Štaka
Children of Transition, Matija Vukšić
Naked Island, Tiha Gudac
Ungiven, Branko Schmidt
Love or Death, Daniel Kušan
No One's Child, Vuk Ršumović
Consumed, Borut Šeparović
The Spirits Diary, Damir Čučić
The Enchanting Porkers, Ivan Livaković
These are the Rules, Ognjen Sviličić
You Carry Me, Ivona Juka
Zagreb Stories Vol. 3, grupa autora
The High Sun, Dalibor Matanić
Short Pula:
• Granddaughter, Tomislav Šestan
• No Wolf Has a House, Hana Jušić
• An Awful Pair of Shoes and a Funeral, Luka Čurčić
• Breakfast, Salvatore li Causi
• Life Is Fair, Arsen Oremović
• Indoor hunting, Kristina Vuković
• It's no big deal, Gea Gojak
• The Rainfall, Marko Dugonjić
• Minutes, Ivan Stanić
• Sunday Night Special, Neven Dužanec
• Escape, Ivana Marinić Kragić
• The Return, Filip Heraković
• Polenta, Ivan Veljača
• Room with Sloping View (unofficial translation), Davor Žmegač
• Hands, Jasna Nanut
• A Very Brief Excursion, Igor Bezinović
INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME
The International programme consists of; a competitive and a non-competitive section, short films programme Short Matters (in cooperation with the European Film Academy), programmes for young people Dizalica and programmes for children Pulica.
Selected long feature films of the International Program (competition)
- Corn Island, George Ovashvili (Gruzija)
Cottbus Film Festival of Young East European Cinema 2014, Audience Award
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2014, Award of Ecumenical Jury, Crystal Globe
Palm Springs International Film Festival 2015, Bridging the Borders Award
- Out of Nature, Ole Giaever and Marta Vold, (Norway)
Berlin International Film Festival 2015, Label Europa Cinemas
- The Summer of Sangalie, Alante Kavaite (Lithuania, France, Netherlands)
Sundance Film Festival 2015, Directing Award
- 600 Miles, Gabriel Ripstein (Mexico)
Berlin International Film Festival 2015, Best First Feature Award
- Koza, Ivan Ostrochovský (Slovakia, Czech Republic)
Berlin International Film Festival 2015
Wiesbaden goEast 2015, Best Director, FIPRESCI Prize
- Ned Rifle, Hal Hartley, (USA)
Berlin International Film Festival 2015, Prize of the Ecumenical Jury
- Bota, Thomas Logoreci (Albania, Italy, Kosovo)
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2014, FEDEORA Award
- Pored mene, Stevan Filipović (Serbia)
World Premiere
- For Some Inexplicable Reason, Gabor Reisz (Hungary)
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2014
- Dheepan, Jacques Audiard (France)
Cannes Film Festival 2015, Palme d'Or
- The Lobster, Yorgos Lanthimos (Greece, Great Britain, Ireland, Netherlands, France)
Cannes Film Festival 2015, Jury Prize, Palm Dog - Jury Prize, Queer Palm - Special Mention
- Snake Brothers, red. Jan Prušinovský (Czech Republic)
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2015
- Parabellum, red. Lukas Valenta Rinner (Argentina, Austria, Uruguay)
Rotterdam International Film Festival 2015
Göteborg Film Festival 2015
- Trash, Stephen Daldry (Great Britain)
Rome Film Fest 2014, BNL People's Choice Award
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2014
The event is organized as part of Rendez-vous - the festival of France in Croatia – www.rendez-vous.hr
Selected feature length films of the International Programme (out of competition):
• Utopia, Dennis Kelly (United Kingdom), the series
• Minions, Kyle Balda, Pierre Coffin (USA)
• Pixels, Chris Columbus (USA)
• Terminator Genisys, Alan Taylor (USA)
Short length films – Short Matters
• Whale Valley, Gudmundur Arnar Gudmundsson (Denmark, Iceland)
• The Missing Scarf, Eoin Duffy (Ireland)
• Little Block of Cement With Dishevelled Hair Containing The Sea, Jorge Lopez Navarrete (Spain)
• Pride, Paul Vesnakov (Bulgaria, Germany)
• Taprobane, Gabriel Abrantes (Portugal, Sri Lanka, Denmark)
• Fal, Simon Szabo (Hungary)
• Summer 2014, Wojciech Sobczyk (Poland)
• Dino, Mariam Khatchvani (Georgia)
• Shipwreck, Morgan Knibb (Netherlands)
• Emergency Calls, Hannes Vartiainen and Pekka Veikkolainen (Finland)
• Daily Bread, Idan Hubel (Israel)
• Still Got Lives, Jan-Gerrit Seyler (Germany)
The programme Dizalica, successfully debuted at the 61st Pula Film Festival, is especially dedicated to young film lovers aged 16 to 21 years old.
This year's film programme:
• Short Skin, Duccio Chiarini (Italy)
• Diary of a Teenage Girl, Marielle Heller (USA)
• My Skinny Sister, Sanna Lenken (Sweden, Germany)
• Streetkids United II: The Girls from Rio, Maria Clara Costa (United Kingdom, Netherlands, Brazil)
• Beautiful Girl, Dominik Hartl (Austria)
The traditional festival programme for children Pulica, recognized and appreciated as an important part of the film education for children, this year consists of screenings of the contemporary Croatian, European, world fiction and animated feature-length and short films, which have excelled at numerous film festivals for children and youth.
Feature length films:
• Hocus Pocus, Alfie Atkins, Torill Kove (Norway, Sweden)
• Pettson and Findus - A Little Nuisance, a Great Friendship, Ali Samadi Ahadi (Germany)
• The Song of the Sea, Tomm Moore (Ireland, Denmark, Belgium, Luxembourg, France)
• Il ragazzo invisibile, Gabrilele Salvatores (Italy)
• Karsten and Petra on Safari, Arne Lindtner Næss (Norway)
• Rhubarb, Mark de Cloe (Netherlands)
• My Sound of Music, Robert Wise (USA)
Short length films:
• Elephant and the Bicycle, Olesya Shchukina (France)
• Patchwork Chicken, Angela Steffen, Andrea Deppert (Germany)
• The Mitten, Clementine Robach (France)
• The Adventures of Yoyo, a group of authors (Belgium)
• Snowflake, Natalia Chernysheva (Russia)
''13 Years of exceptional cooperation with Pula Film Festival proves that it is a project of great importance for Croatia, in both cinema and culture as a whole. Pula Film Festival each year screens top national and international film productions, and I am pleased to announce that we will continue the tradition to enable to Maxtv users viewing part of the festivals films immediately after the screenings in the MAXtv Video Library. „- said Sanja Milinović, Head of Croatian Telekom’s Direct approach to the market.
“Pula Film Festival every year becomes an increasingly important gathering place for film fans from Croatia and the entire world, a fact that we are proud of. About the meaning the Pula Film Festival as a national event, testifies the continued support of the Ministry of Culture that pays special attention to ensure the best possible conditions for the presentation of Croatian film, as an important run-on of the national audio-visual strategy “- said Tamara Perišić, Assistant of the Minister Culture.
The Leadership of the Festival has announced the recent news related to the professional programme of the Festival - Pula Professional - and other film programmes from 18 to 25 July 2015.
