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Catalogue of the 62nd Pula

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Film under the stars

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Timeline

Festival highlights since 1953

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Welcome to the children's film week!

Summer "Pulica" continues in the autumn and brings a week of mornings and afternoons filled with films.

P.S. Pula from 22nd to 28th August at Kaštel

Admission tickets on sale also at the box office of Valli Cinema. 

Awards of the 62nd Pula Film Festival

Read the complete list of this year's winners.

News archive

Pula Film Festival

Press releases

For all information about Festival media activities, call 052 393 321 or send an email to: sanela@pulafilmfestival.hr

Press releases, press photos, information on accreditation and previous festival press releases will be available from June.

Film photo gallery

Download HERE the photos from the Croatian film You Carry Me.

Download HERE the photos from the Croatian film We Will Be The World Champions.

Download HERE the photos from the Croatian film Girls - Life of Another.

Download HERE the photos from the Croatian film Children of Transition.

Download HERE the photos from the Croatian film Naked Island.

Download HERE the photos from the Croatian film Ungiven.

Download HERE the photos from the Croatian film Love or Death.

Download HERE the photos from the Croatian film No One's Child.

Download HERE the photos from the Croatian film Consumed.

Download HERE the photos from the Croatian film The Spirits Diary.

Download HERE the photos from the Croatian film These Are The Rules.

Download HERE the photos from the Croatian film Zagreb Stories Vol. 3.

Download HERE the photos from the Croatian film The High Sun.

 

 

 

Films on Dizalica

Selected films voted by public:

Short Skin, Duccio Chiarini (Italy)
My Skinny Sister, Sanna Lenken (Sweden, Germany)
Streetkids United II: Girls from Rio, Maria Clara (United Kingdom, Netherlands, Brasil)
Beautiful Girl, Dominik Hartl (Austria)

MALDIEDO

SHORT SKIN
(I dolori del giovane Edo), comedy, Italy, 2015, 86 min

Director: Duccio Chiarini
Producers: Babak Jalali i Duccio Chiarini
Screenplay: Duccio Chiarini, Ottavia Maddeddu, Marco Pettenello, Miroslav Mandić
Director of photography: Baris Ozbicer
Editing: Roberto Di Tanna
Costume design: Ginevra De Carolis
Cast: Matteo Creatini, Francesca Agostini, Nicola Nocchi, Miriana Raschillà, Bianca Ceravolo, Bianca Nappi, Michele Crestacci, Francesco Acquaroli, Crisula Stafida, Anna Ferzetti, Lisa Granuzza di Vita

Since childhood Edoardo has been suffering from phimosis, a penis malformation which prevents him from experiencing sexual satisfaction. Now seventeen, he starts to feel some pressure from the outside world. Apparently everyone around him talks and thinks about sex: his friend Arturo, so obsessed with losing his virginity that is wanting to pay for it, his parents, encouraging him to declare his love to Bianca, even his little sister Olivia, looking for a good partner for the family dog Teagan. Edoardo's lack of confidence starts changing with the casual meeting of a new girl, Elisabetta, and the unexpected approach of Bianca. Forced to come out of the shadow he was hiding in, Edoardo tries first to solve his problem with clumsy strategies, finding finally the courage to face his fears.

DIZALICASKINNYSISTER

MY SKINNY SISTER
(Min lilla syster), drama, Sweden/Germany, 95 min

Director: Sanna Lenken
Producer: Annika Rogell
Screenplay: Sanna Lenken
Director of photography: Moritz Schultheiß
Editing: Hanna Lejonqvist
Music: Per Störby Jutbring
Cast: Rebecka Josephson, Amy Deasismont, Henrik Norlén, Annika Hallin, Maxim Mehmet, Emelie Strömberg, Ellen Lindbom

Just as Stella enters the exciting world of adolescence she discovers that her big sister and role model Katja is hiding an eating disorder. The disease slowly tears the family apart. A story about jealousy, love and betrayal told with warmth, depth and laughter.

STREETKIDS

STREETKIDS UNITED II: THE GIRLS FROM RIO
(Streetkids United II: The Girls From Rio), dokumentarni, UK/Netherlands/Brasil, 2015., 78 min

Director: Maria Clara
Producers: Jamilah Van Der Hulst, Mike Downey, Sam Taylor, Conrad Alleblas
Editors: Rodrigo Sellos, Rená Tardin
DOP: Alexandre Mandarino
Music: Ayu Lestari, Batuque Batucada, Juninho Vg, LG, Sanne Couprie

Streetkids United II - The Girls From Rio is a documentary film about a life-changing experience for a group of girls from the favelas in Rio de Janeiro, the Favela Street Girls, who are chosen to represent Brazil during the Street Child World Cup 2014. The girls, who have faced crime, violence and social problems during their lives, and their coaches work hard to become a winning team. Their journey to the unknown finally rewards them with much more.

BEAUTIFUL

BEAUTIFUL GIRL
(Beautiful Girl), romance, Austria, 2015, 95 min

Director: Dominik Hartl
Producers: Helmut Grasser, Constanze Schumann
Screenplay: Dominik Hartl, Agnes Pluch
Director of photography: Xiaosu Han, Andreas Thalhammer
Editing: Ingrid Koller, Christoph Loidl
Music: Paul Galister, Max Borchardt, Matthias Weber
Cast: Jana McKinnon, Marlon Boess, Giacomo Pilotti, Lilian Klebow, Dany Sigel, Mortiz Uhl, Christian Tramitz

When her parents separate, 15-year-old Charlotte has her first taste of how painful love can be. But then she meets two boys – Sulzer and Carlo – who are also best friends and she soon discovers that love can be pretty chaotic and crazy at times.

DISISTILL

BREATHE
(Respire), drama, France, 2014, 91 min

Directed by: Mélanie Laurent
Written by: Mélanie Laurent, Julien Lambroschini
Producer: Bruno Levy
Production Company: Gaumont, Move Movie, Mely Production
Cast: Lou de Laâge, Joséphine Japy, Isabelle Carré, Claire Keim
Based on the novel by: Anne-Sophie Brasme
Cinematography: Arnaud Potier
Editing: Guerric Catala
Sound: Cyril Moisson, Cyril Holtz, Alexis Place
Music: Marc Chouarain

Charlie is a 17-year-old girl tortured by doubt, disillusionment and loneliness. When the attractive and self-confident Sarah arrives and the two become inseparable, Charlie is excited to feel alive. However, as Sarah tires of Charlie and begins to look elsewhere for a new friend, their friendship takes an ominous turn.

Films on Pulica

Selected feature 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) 
The Invisible Boy, Gabriele Salvatores (Italy)
Casper and Emma on Safari, Arne Lindtner Næss (Norway)
Rhubarb, Mark de Cloe (Netherlands)

HOKUSPOKUS

HOKUS POCUS, ALFIE ATKINS
(Hokus Pokus Alfons Åberg), Norway, 2013., 76 min

Director: Torill Kove
Screenplay: Hans Åke Gabrielsson, Tora Berg based on the book „Hokus pokus, Albert Åberg!“ by Gunilla Bergström
Production company: Maipo Film AS Mølleparken 4 N-0459 Oslo
Executive producer: Synnøve Hørsdal
Producer: Kristin Ulseth

When he's not playing at pirates with his friends, 6year-old Alfie Atkins dreams of having a dog of his own,just like the one the old magician has. And since magic is all in the mind, Alfie is convinced he can use it to make his dream come true. But it is not as easy as he thinks... even if, in the end, his dream does come true, in the most unexpected manner.

PETTSON

PETTSON AND FINDUS – A LITTLE NUISANCE, A GREAT FRIENDSHIP
(Pettersson und Findus - Kleiner Quälgeist, große Freundschaft), Germany, 2014., 86 min

Director: Ali Samadi Ahadi
Screenplay: Sven Nordqvist, Thomas Springer
Music: Ali N. Askin
Producers: Helge Sasse, Thomas Springer, Helmut Weber

Old man Pettson lives in a small, red house, spending his time chopping wood, doing odd jobs, working on his inventions, fishing and taking care of his chickens. It seems he has everything he needs in life. However, sometimes Pettersson feels lonely. One day his neighbour, Beda Andersson, who takes care of everything warmheartedly, gives him a small tomcat, so the old man has a bit of company. Pettersson names him Findus and raises him lovingly. His happiness is perfect when the small cat begins to speak: it is the start of a wonderful, apparently inseparable friendship.

PJESMAMORA

SONG OF THE SEA
(Song of the Sea) Ireland, Luksembourg, Belgium, France, Danmark, 2014., 93 min

Director: Tomm Moore
Production company: Cartoon Saloon
Co-production: Melusine Productions (Luxembourg), The Big Farm (Belgium), Nørlum (Denmark) and Superprod (France), with the support of The Irish Film Board, Broadcasting Authority Of Ireland, TG4, Section 481, Eurimages, Luxembourg Film Fund, Wallimages, Centre du cinema et de l’audiovisuel de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles, Danish Film Institute, West Danish Film Fund and Danish Radio
Voices: Brendan Gleeson, Fionnula Flanagan, David Rawle, Lisa Hannigan, Lucy O'Connell, Jon Kenny

From the creators of the Academy Award-nominated „The Secret of Kells“ comes a breathtakingly gorgeous, hand-drawn masterpiece. Based on the Irish legend of the Selkies, Song of the Sea tells the story of the last seal-child, Saoirse, and her brother Ben, who go on an epic journey to save the world of magic and discover the secrets of their past.

NEVIDLJIVI

THE INVISIBLE BOY
(Il ragazzo invisibile), Italy/France/Ireland, 2014., 100 min

Director: Gabriele Salvatores
Production companies: Indigo Film, Babe Film, Element Pictures, Rai Cinema
Cast: Ludovico Girardello, Valeria Golino, Fabrizio Bentivoglio, Ksenia Rappoport, Aleksei Guskov, Noa Zatta, Raicho Vasilev

Michele is 13 and lives in a quiet seaside town. Nobody would say he was popular at school nor is he a brilliant student nor is he very good at sports. But deep down, he does not care. Michele would settle for catching the attention of Stella, the girl he cannot help looking at all the time in class. But he has the feeling that she is totally unaware of his presence. But one day the monotony of normal life is shattered by an extraordinary discovery: Michele looks in the mirror and finds that he is invisible. The most incredible adventure of his life is about to begin.

KARSTENIPETRA

CASPER AND EMMA ON SAFARI
(Karsten og Petra på safari), Norway, 2015., 75 min

Director: Arne Lindtner Næss
Screenplay: Alexander Eik
Producers: Silje Hopland Eik & Tanya Nanette Badendyck
Director of photography: Trevor Brown
Editing: Leif Axel Kjeldsen
Costume design: Ilja Magga
Set design: Bobby Cardoso
Music: Lars Kilevold

A real lion cub which has lost its mummy, Grandpa being caught in a lion trap, and chasing a lion thief, demands everything of Casper and Emma on safari in Africa.

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RHUBARB
(Rabarber), family drama, Netherlands, 2014., 70 min

Director: Mark de Cloe
Script: Maarten Lebens
Producer: Alain de Levita
DOP: Jan Moeskops
Sound design: Marco Vermaas
Costume design: Margriet Procee
Hair and make-up: Joan Tjon A Hie
Editor: Moek de Groot
Music: Jorrit Kleijen & Alexander Reumers

A film about a ‘patchwork family’. Winnie and Siem get to know one another after Siem’s father and Winnie’s mother fall in love. The two teenagers quickly get on really well together, so they are concerned when the quarrels and bickering between their parents start to get worse. To stop their parents from splitting up, the kids decide to make a ‘how-to video’ with tips on having a relationship. This brings the two of them even closer together.


Selected short films:

Elephant and the Bicycle, Olesya Shchukina (France)
Patchwork Chicken, Angela Steffen, Andrea Deppert (Germany)
The Mitten, Clementine Robach (France)
The Adventures of Yoyo, group of authors (Belgium)
Snowflake, Natalia Chernysheva (Russia)

SLON

ELEPHANT AND THE BICYCLE
(Le vélo de l'éléphant), Belgium/France, 2014., 9 min

Script, storyboard, graphic design, animation: Olesya Shchukina
Producers: Corinne Destombes (Folimage), Arnaud Demunyck (La Boite… productions)
Original music: Yan Volsy
Sound design: Philippe Fontaine
Cinematographer: David Toutevoix
Animation: Lucrèce Andreae, Marjolaine Parot
Editing: Hervé Guichard

An elephant lives in a town among people and works as a street cleaner. One day, he sees a big billboard advertising a bicycle. It seems the perfect size for him! This is the minute the elephant's life changes: he has to get this bicycle whatever it costs him.

KOKASDEKICE

PATCHWORK CHICKEN
(Patchwork Chicken), Germany, 2014., 3 min

Script & director: Angela Steffen, Andrea Deppert
Character design: Angela Steffen
Animation: Angela Steffen, Andrea Deppert
Producer: Thomas Meyer-Hermann
Co-production: SWR
Production studio: FILM BILDER 2013
Artistic direction: Andreas HykadePozadina: Angela Steffen, Andrea Deppert
Voice: Kaya Kruczek
Music: Martin Lickleder, Claudia Kaiser

What´s happening on this blanket? Lots and lots of animals live here and everybody´s doing fine - but in this episode the chicken has a problem: the egg is stuck! Will the patchwork pals find a solution for this problem and help her?“The Patchwork Pals” is a series for TV starters, age three and up.

RUKAV

THE MITTEN
(La moufle), France/Belgium, 2014., 8 min

Director: Clémentine Robach
Script: Arnaud Demuynck
Animation: Clementine Robach, Nicolas Liguori, Elise Catros
Voices: Lily Demuynck Deydier, Jacqueline i Guy Deschamps
Editing: Nicolas Liguori, Corine Bachy
Music and sound: Falter Bramnk
Producer: Arnaud Demuynck
Production studio: Les Films du Nord
Co-production: La Boite,...Productions, Les Films de l’Ile, Pictanovo

It is snowing. Lily and her grandfather are making a little bird house to help the birds survive during the winter. “But where do the other animals in the garden find shelter in winter?” wonders the little girl. So she puts one of her mittens at the foot of the tree where they have fastened the bird house.

JOJO

THE ADVENTURES OF YOYO
(Les aventures de yoyo), Belgium, 2013., 3 min

Direction: 13 children
Coordination of the collective workshop: Louise-Marie Colon, Delphine Hermans
Script, characters, background, animation and sound: 13 children
Music: Tycho Brahé
Editing: Simon Medard
Producer: Jean-Luc Slock

Pierre releases Yoyo, his grandmother’s parrot. But the animal has to learn to fly before joining other parrots in Amazonia…

PAHULJ

SNOWFLAKE
(Snejinka), Russia, 2012., 6 min

Direction and script: Natalia Chernysheva
Produkction studio: Studio Pchela (Moskva, Rusija)
Sound: Pavel Pogudin
Editing: Ludmila Putatina
Music: Alexandr Babin
Producers: Vladimir Gasiev

Once a little African boy got a letter. In the letter he found a snowflake made of paper. He liked it so much that he wanted to see it in reality as he wondered what the real snow looks like.

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PULA CINEMATEQUE

The programme is dedicated to film classics that have marked the history of Pula Film Festival. The Projections are organised on the Brijuni Islands.

EXHIBITIONS

PFF realizes a series of exhibitions in collaboration with various Pula and Croatian associations, institutions and organizations, at venues throughout Pula

RETROSPECTIVE

Flexible programme dedicated to the cinema production of a specific country, a specific author or other themed lead.

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The entertainment programme will run from the 18th to 25th of July

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