The International Programme of the 57th Pula Film Festival shall start with the programme at Kastel that shall run from Saturday 10 July to Friday 16 July 2010, starting at 21.30.

All films screened as on the Kastel shall be re-run during the festival at the Valli Cinema, starting at 16.00.
From 17 till 24 July, films from the International Programme shall be also presented at 18.00 at the Valli Cinema and in the Arena after the completion of the National Programme.

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 of 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...). We screen only Croatian premieres. The deadline for the 57th festival is 1 May 2010.
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

At a press conference held on 31 March 2010 in Pula, the Pula Film Festival presented half of the twenty films from the International Programme, selected from world’s biggest festivals for premiere screenings in Pula. Furthermore, other preparations in terms of the programme and organization of the 57^th Pula Film Festival were also discussed. Artistic Director Zlatko Vidackovic, Festival Director Zdenka Viskovic-Vukic and Festival Producer Tanja Milicic spoke at the press conference.

Europolis-Meridians International Programme shall opene on July, 10^th with the film The Duchess by Saul Dibb. This British costume romantic drama about a young woman torn between her marital duties and her true love features Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes and Charlotte Rampling. The film premiered in Toronto, won the Academy Award and the BAFTA Award for Best Costume Design, and Ralph Fiennes was nominated for the Golden Globe.

From the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Festival comes the historical epic Tsar by Pavel Lungin. The film centres on Russian tsar Ivan the Terrible who expects to find an ally in the new Metropolitan Philip but falls deeper and deeper into fanaticism.

Italian actor and director Michele Placido, whom Pula remembers by the film Crime Novel (Romanzo Criminale), directed the semi-autobiographical film The Big Dream (Il Grande Sogno) that follows a young police officer who decides to become an actor during the student movement in 1968. The film comes to Pula from the Venice Film Festival competition.

The Turin Film Festival premiered the French road film Give Me Your Hand (Donne-moi la main) by Pascal-Alex Vincent about a pair of twins who never knew their mother and who decide to go to Spain to her funeral.

The American independent film A Single Man is a famous fashion designer Tom Ford’s directing debut. The film stars Colin Firth as a literature professor who losses his partner and after a period of bereavement finds beauty in small things in life. The film premiered in the competition of the Venice Film Festival where Colin Firth won the Coppa Volpi Award for Best Actor. The same role also won him the BAFTA Award and Golden Globe and Academy Award nominations.

From China comes the crime thriller Accident (Yi Ngoy) by Pou-Soi Cheang centred on an assassin who works by orchestrating fatal accidents but suspects that accidents that happen to his team are also orchestrated. The film screened in the competition of the Venice Film Festival.