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International program

The international film programme in the Pula Arena has a long tradition: long ago in 1938, even before the Cannes Film Festival was founded, the first film revue held in the Pula Arena drew a large audience. On June 18, 1938, André Berthomieu’s La chaste Suzanne was presented as an opening film and the revue ran until August 28.

Following World War II, a year before the national film revue in the Arena took place, nowadays considered as the first Pula film festival, a foreign film revue was organized. Nine films screened from August 13-23, 1953, among which also Kurosawa’s Rashomon. Precisely because of the exceptional success of the international film revue (with 50000 visitors) the Arena established itself as an ideal location for a film festival.

In 1955, in the presence of the patron, Yugoslav president Tito, Three Coins in the Fountain was showcased, the first film in Croatia to be presented in CinemaScope. Throughout the entire later history of the festival foreign films and co-productions have been screened as part of different programmes, and in 2001 Pula officially became the festival of Croatian and European film. The first European film to win a Grand Golden Arena was 101 Reykjavik by Icelandic director Baltasar Kormakur.

In 2003, during the 50th jubilee edition of the Festival, Jeremy Irons attends the screening of Callas Forever, whereas John Malkovich invites viewers to visit the Festival in a television video clip shot in Pula. 2005 sees the launch of the Europolis-Meridians International Programme in a movie theatre and the PoPular Programme in the Arena. In 2007 the International Programme moves to the attractive Pula Castle where it is opened by Greta Scacchi, and a Golden Arena for best foreign director is accepted by Jiří Menzel in person. 2008 sees the opening of the Cinema Valli in the presence of Christopher Lee, who accepts a Special Golden Arena for contribution to cinema in the Arena.

In 2009 a retrospective programme dedicated to important world directors is launched: the first retrospective is dedicated to Pedro Almodóvar and the following ones respectively to Giuseppe Tornatore, Claude Chabrol, and James Ivory, who accepts a Golden Arena for lifetime achievement in 2011 in person. 2010 sees the expansion of the Europolis programme to summer festivals in Dubrovnik, Split, Rijeka, Osijek, Zagreb, Šibenik, and Zadar, and this tendency continues the following years as well.

The first country to befriend the Festival was Italy in 2011, followed by France in 2012, whereas the 2013 International Programme of the Festival will be dedicated to the European Union, of which Croatia will become a member on July 1, 2012. 27 films from 27 member countries of the European Union, as well as five from other five members of the MEDIA programme, will be presented as part of three different programmes: Europolis, children’s programme Pulica, and the newly launched programme of European short film.

 

Applications for the European short and feature film programme Europolis close on May 1, 2013, and they can be submitted during the entire year. In order to apply for the programme you have to send a DVD screener to artistic director of the festival Zlatko Vidačković to the address Nazorova 37, HR-10000 Zagreb, or access data for online screening at artistic.director@pulafilmfestival.hr

Arena

International program

  • covjek_od_celika

    Tuesday, 23. July in 23:15,

    Man of Steel

    | | 143 min | 2013.

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    director: Zack Snyder
    cast: Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Michael Shannon

    A young man is forced to is forced to confront his secret extraterrestrial heritage when Earth is invaded by members of his race.

  • prije_ponoci

    Saturday, 27. July in 00:15,

    Before Midnight

    | | 109 min | 2013.

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    director: Richard Linklater
    cast: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick, Xenia Kalogeropoulou, Walter Lassally

    There have been almost two decades since American Jesse and French Celine met for the first time. Nine years after their last encounter we follow them on their summer vacation in Greece where they talk about life and love.

    Festival premieres: Sundance Film Festival, 2013 Berlin

     

Cinema Valli

International program

  • majka

    Saturday, 13. July in 20:00,

    Mother

    | | 30 min | 2013.

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    dir. Łukasz Ostalski, Poland

    Influential politician Małgorzata comes home to find her son unconscious and next to him a disfigured body of a young girl.

  • skok

    Saturday, 13. July in 20:00,

    Jump

    | | 30 min | 2012.

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    dir. Kristina Grozeva, Petar Valčanov, Bulgaria

    Single man Gosho takes care of the house of his rich relative. When a meter reader knocks on the door, a romantic love happens.

  • le_train

    Sunday, 14. July in 20:00,

    The Blue Train

    | | 18 min | 2012.

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    dir. Stephanie Assimacopoulo, France

    Selena is trying to save her relationship with Helie, but he cannot be convinced. When they sit in The Blue Train café bar to have their last drink together, incredible things start to occur.

  • vrijeme_ljubavi

    Sunday, 14. July in 20:00,

    Love in Time

    | | 11 min | 2013.

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    dir. Anne Jacqueline, France

    Love and time relationship is symbolically reflected in Julia’s broken old watch. Alexandre has no time, Jean is surprised at her still carrying it, and Mathieu breaks it.

  • poljubi_me-njezno

    Sunday, 14. July in 20:00,

    Kiss Me Softly

    | | 16 min | 2012.

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    dir. Anthony Schatteman, Belgium

    Seventeen-year-old Jasper lives in a small town. His father’s career as a singer is the centre of attention in his family and nobody is concerned with his growing up. One day he decides to change that.

  • isprana_ljubav

    Sunday, 14. July in 20:00,

    Washed Up Love

    | | 6 min | 2011.

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    dir. Dylan Cotter, Ireland

    Moira and Cáit, two middle-aged sisters, encounter a naked young man on the beach who seemingly declares love to Moira.

  • 12_od_nikad

    Monday, 15. July in 20:00,

    12th of Never

    | | 18 min | 2013.

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    dir. Fadi Hindash, the Netherlands

    Stan is an unsuccessful writer bullied by his wife. However, according to him she is the one who chases him, just like other women. But what is the truth?

  • godinu_dana_poslije

    Monday, 15. July in 20:00,

    One Year After

    | | 11 min | 2013.

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    dir. Cristian Pascariu, Romania

    One year later, next to a place where her husband lost his life, on the road, a woman encounters a man who caused the accident.

  • nicoleta

    Monday, 15. July in 20:00,

    Nicoleta

    | , | 19 min | 2012.

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    dir. Sonia Liza Kenterman, Greece / Great Britain

    In 1951 there is still much hatred in the Greek mountains following the civil war. A boy carries his sister on his back to pull her out of poverty.

  • svinja_mesar

    Monday, 15. July in 20:00,

    How the Pig Became the Butcher

    | | 5 min | 2013.

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    dir. Gregorius Gray, Austria
    An armed robber bursts into a butcher’s shop.  Instead of searching for money, he searches for sausages and meat, particularly caring for a real meat loaf.

  • voda

    Tuesday, 16. July in 20:00,

    Water!

    | | 16 min | 2012.

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    dir. Mikel Rueda, Spain

    Guille and Alex come from different backgrounds and they don’t know each other but their passion for swimming unites them.

  • sloboda

    Tuesday, 16. July in 20:00,

    Liberdade

    | | 16 min | 2011.

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    dir. Gabriel Abrantes, Benjamin Crotty, Portugal

    Liberty is a young man who dreams about a better future. He is with a beautiful young Chinese woman. There is only one thing missing for perfection.

  • misli_o_umiranje

    Tuesday, 16. July in 20:00,

    Thoughts about Dying

    | | 7 min | 2011.

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    dir. Jani Ilomäki, Finland

    Eight-year-old Antti is told that his dog should be put to sleep. Antti begins to think about the meaning of death.

  • hladni_tus

    Tuesday, 16. July in 20:00,

    Cold Shower

    | | 14 min | 2010.

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    dir. Orsi Nagypal, Hungary

    On a warm summer night Robert, a naïve seventeen-year-old, and Fero, a young Roma boy who joined a local theatrical company, have to face their prejudice.

     

  • 1150

    Wednesday, 17. July in 20:00,

    11:50

    | | 15 min | 2012.

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    dir. Stylianos Constantinou

    Xenon starts his day as usual. Precise and meticulous, like every embalmer should be, he begins preparing a body. But something unusual happens…

  • the_last_bus

    Wednesday, 17. July in 20:00,

    The Last Bus

    | | 15 min | 2011.

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    dir. Martin Snopek

    It’s the start of the hunting season. The animals of the forest board a small bus and flee to safety. When hunters stop the bus in the middle of the night, its passengers reveal their true natures…

  • bolnicar

    Wednesday, 17. July in 20:00,

    The Medic

    | | 11 min | 2011.

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    dir. Ray Mizzi

    A German war veteran remembers an incident from the end of the war and his encounter with a British medic, which left an indelible mark on both of them…

  • srijedom

    Wednesday, 17. July in 20:00,

    On Wednesdays

    | | 3 min | 2011.

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    dir. Ieva Javaityte

    An old elegant lady is shopping in a supermarket. In her face – not even a trace of tiredness or anger. She takes her time and enjoys the activity, a ritual…

  • ludvig

    Thursday, 18. July in 18:00,

    Ludwig II

    | | 130 min | 2012.

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    director:  Marie Noelle, Peter Sehr
    cast: Sabin Tambrea, Sebastian Schipper, Paula Beer

    After his father suddenly dies, Ludwig, only since recently full of age, comes to the Bavarian throne. He cares more for opera and building magnificent castles than for state affairs. Ludwig fails to fulfil the expectations of the political elite and is pronounced incompetent to rule due to his peculiar character.

  • u kuci

    Saturday, 20. July in 15:00,

    In the House

    | | 105 min | 2012.

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    director: François Ozon,
    cast: Kristin Scott Thomas, Fabrice Luchini, Emmanuelle Seigner, Ernst Umhauer

    Sixteen-year-old Clause insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in his essays. The teacher is fascinated by his writing, but the boy’s intrusion will unleash a series of uncontrollable events.

    AwardsGrand Prix at San Sebastian, FIPRESCI Award at Toronto

  • jackie

    Saturday, 20. July in 22:30,

    Jackie

    | | 96 min | 2012

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    director: Antoinette Beumer
    cast: Carice van Houten, Jelka van Houten, Holly Hunter

    Sofie and Daan, two Dutch twin sisters, go to the United States in search of their long-lost mother Jackie.

  • adele

    Sunday, 21. July in 21:30,

    Adele: Chapters 1 & 2

    | | 179 min | 2013

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    director: Abdellatif Kechiche
    cast: Léa Seydoux, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Salim Kechiouche

    At fifteen, Adele doesn’t question it: girls go out with boys. Her life is changed forever when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of the others, Adele grows, seek herself, loses herself, finds herself…

  • najbolja_ponuda

    Monday, 22. July in 21:30,

    The Best Offer

    | | 124 min | 2012

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    dir. Giuseppe Tornatore, Italy, 2012, cast: Geoffrey Rush, Jim Sturgess, Sylvia Hoeks

    Virgil Oldman is a sought-after art auctioneer who manages to get hold of extremely valuable portraits of women at a very low price with the help of his associates. When a mysterious young woman engages him to determine the value of her furniture, his well-balanced life turns upside down…
    Premiere: 2013 Berlin 2013

  • ludvig

    Tuesday, 23. July in 21:30,

    Ludwig II

    | | 130 min | 2012.

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    director:  Marie Noelle, Peter Sehr
    cast: Sabin Tambrea, Sebastian Schipper, Paula Beer

    After his father suddenly dies, Ludwig, only since recently full of age, comes to the Bavarian throne. He cares more for opera and building magnificent castles than for state affairs. Ludwig fails to fulfil the expectations of the political elite and is pronounced incompetent to rule due to his peculiar character.

  • zlatne_godin e

    Wednesday, 24. July in 15:00,

    Oldies but Goldies

    | | 90 min | 2012.

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    director: Jiří Strach
    cast: Radoslav Brzobohatý, Jiřina Bohdalová, Ivan Trojan, Jiřina Jirásková

    Regardless of their age, Ota and Jana want to live to the fullest. He is a retired university professor and she is an actor who left an indelible imprint on his life. Although their new first encounter does not go that well, it is Jana who encourages Ota to go on a journey he would not dare to go on when he was younger.

     

  • ja_i_ti

    Wednesday, 24. July in 21:30,

    Me and You

    | | 2012

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    redatelj: Bernardo Bertolucci
    uloge: Jacopo Olmo Antinori, Tea Falco, Sonia Bergamasco, Tommaso Ragno

    Lorenzo, usamljeni četrnaestogodišnjak koji ima težak odnos sa roditeljima i vršnjacima, za vrijeme školskog izleta na skijanje na tjedan se dana skrije u podrumu zgrade planirajući savršenu izolaciju uz omiljenu glazbu i knjige, no posjet starije sestre promijenit će sve…
    premijera: Cannes 2012.

     

  • strazar

    Thursday, 25. July in 15:00,

    The Lookout

    | , , | 89 min | 2012

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    director: Michele Placido,
    cast: Daniel Auteuil, Mathieu Kassovitz, Olivier Gourmet

    Captain Mattei is getting ready to catch a vicious gang of bank robbers but a sniper shoots several policemen from the roof of a neighbouring building, enabling the robbers to run away. While the police is starting a chase, tensions between the runaway robbers are boiling.

  • 20godina_razlike

    Thursday, 25. July in 21:30,

    It Boy

    | | 92 min | 2013

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    Alice is a 38-year-old perfectionist and a very demanding fashion editor at the Rebelle magazine. Her boss is not convinced she is the editor-in-chief material, but everything changes when Alice earns the reputation of a man-eater because of an accidental photograph of her with a student twenty years her junior. With her eye on the promotion, Alice decides to play along, much to the initial amusement of nineteen-year-old Balthazar, who can’t believe his luck.

     

    director: David Moreau

    cast: Virginie Efira, Pierre Niney, Charles Berling, Gilles Cohen, Amélie Glenn

     

  • zrtveno_janje

    Friday, 26. July in 15:00,

    The Scapegoat

    | | 100 min | 2012

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    The year is 1952 and England prepares for the coronation. A rich man takes advantage of his resemblance to a professor to switch identities. A new adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier’s novel Rebecca, adapted in 1959 by Robert Hammer, starring Alec Guiness and Bette Davis.

     

    director: Chales Sturridge
    cast: Matthew Rhys, Andrew Scott, Sheridan Smith

     

  • mlada_i_lijepa

    Friday, 26. July in 21:30,

    Young & Beautiful

    | | 94 min | 2013

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    director: Francois Ozon
    cast: Marine Vacth, Géraldine Pailhas, Frédéric Pierrot, Charlotte Rampling, Johan Leysen

    The film follows the life of a beautiful seventeen-year-old through four seasons and four songs.

    Premiere: 2013 Cannes competition

  • posljednja_utakmica

    Friday, 26. July in 23:15,

    The Last Match

    | , | 94 min | 2012.

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    director: Antonio Hens,
    cast: Milton García, Reinier Díaz, Luis Alberto García, Mirta Ibarra, Toni Cantó
    Teenager Reinier works as a gigolo to earn some money for his child, his teenage wife, and her grandma. However, he has no luck. His priorities change when he falls in love with Yosvani.

     

     

Kaštel

International program

  • najbolja_ponuda

    Saturday, 13. July in 21:30,

    The Best Offer

    | | 124 min | 2012

    More

    dir. Giuseppe Tornatore, Italy, 2012, cast: Geoffrey Rush, Jim Sturgess, Sylvia Hoeks

    Virgil Oldman is a sought-after art auctioneer who manages to get hold of extremely valuable portraits of women at a very low price with the help of his associates. When a mysterious young woman engages him to determine the value of her furniture, his well-balanced life turns upside down…
    Premiere: 2013 Berlin 2013

  • 20godina_razlike

    Saturday, 13. July in 23:50,

    It Boy

    | | 92 min | 2013

    More

     

    Alice is a 38-year-old perfectionist and a very demanding fashion editor at the Rebelle magazine. Her boss is not convinced she is the editor-in-chief material, but everything changes when Alice earns the reputation of a man-eater because of an accidental photograph of her with a student twenty years her junior. With her eye on the promotion, Alice decides to play along, much to the initial amusement of nineteen-year-old Balthazar, who can’t believe his luck.

     

    director: David Moreau

    cast: Virginie Efira, Pierre Niney, Charles Berling, Gilles Cohen, Amélie Glenn

     

  • zrtveno_janje

    Sunday, 14. July in 21:30,

    The Scapegoat

    | | 100 min | 2012

    More

    The year is 1952 and England prepares for the coronation. A rich man takes advantage of his resemblance to a professor to switch identities. A new adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier’s novel Rebecca, adapted in 1959 by Robert Hammer, starring Alec Guiness and Bette Davis.

     

    director: Chales Sturridge
    cast: Matthew Rhys, Andrew Scott, Sheridan Smith

     

  • strazar

    Sunday, 14. July in 23:25,

    The Lookout

    | , , | 89 min | 2012

    More

    director: Michele Placido,
    cast: Daniel Auteuil, Mathieu Kassovitz, Olivier Gourmet

    Captain Mattei is getting ready to catch a vicious gang of bank robbers but a sniper shoots several policemen from the roof of a neighbouring building, enabling the robbers to run away. While the police is starting a chase, tensions between the runaway robbers are boiling.

  • u kuci

    Monday, 15. July in 21:30,

    In the House

    | | 105 min | 2012.

    More

    director: François Ozon,
    cast: Kristin Scott Thomas, Fabrice Luchini, Emmanuelle Seigner, Ernst Umhauer

    Sixteen-year-old Clause insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in his essays. The teacher is fascinated by his writing, but the boy’s intrusion will unleash a series of uncontrollable events.

    AwardsGrand Prix at San Sebastian, FIPRESCI Award at Toronto

  • jackie

    Monday, 15. July in 23:30,

    Jackie

    | | 96 min | 2012

    More

    director: Antoinette Beumer
    cast: Carice van Houten, Jelka van Houten, Holly Hunter

    Sofie and Daan, two Dutch twin sisters, go to the United States in search of their long-lost mother Jackie.

  • mlada_i_lijepa

    Tuesday, 16. July in 21:30,

    Young & Beautiful

    | | 94 min | 2013

    More

    director: Francois Ozon
    cast: Marine Vacth, Géraldine Pailhas, Frédéric Pierrot, Charlotte Rampling, Johan Leysen

    The film follows the life of a beautiful seventeen-year-old through four seasons and four songs.

    Premiere: 2013 Cannes competition

  • posljednja_utakmica

    Tuesday, 16. July in 23:20,

    The Last Match

    | , | 94 min | 2012.

    More

    director: Antonio Hens,
    cast: Milton García, Reinier Díaz, Luis Alberto García, Mirta Ibarra, Toni Cantó
    Teenager Reinier works as a gigolo to earn some money for his child, his teenage wife, and her grandma. However, he has no luck. His priorities change when he falls in love with Yosvani.

     

     

  • zlatne_godin e

    Wednesday, 17. July in 21:30,

    Oldies but Goldies

    | | 90 min | 2012.

    More

    director: Jiří Strach
    cast: Radoslav Brzobohatý, Jiřina Bohdalová, Ivan Trojan, Jiřina Jirásková

    Regardless of their age, Ota and Jana want to live to the fullest. He is a retired university professor and she is an actor who left an indelible imprint on his life. Although their new first encounter does not go that well, it is Jana who encourages Ota to go on a journey he would not dare to go on when he was younger.

     

  • ja_i_ti

    Wednesday, 17. July in 23:30,

    Me and You

    | | 2012

    More

    redatelj: Bernardo Bertolucci
    uloge: Jacopo Olmo Antinori, Tea Falco, Sonia Bergamasco, Tommaso Ragno

    Lorenzo, usamljeni četrnaestogodišnjak koji ima težak odnos sa roditeljima i vršnjacima, za vrijeme školskog izleta na skijanje na tjedan se dana skrije u podrumu zgrade planirajući savršenu izolaciju uz omiljenu glazbu i knjige, no posjet starije sestre promijenit će sve…
    premijera: Cannes 2012.

     

  • adele

    Thursday, 18. July in 21:30,

    Adele: Chapters 1 & 2

    | | 179 min | 2013

    More

    director: Abdellatif Kechiche
    cast: Léa Seydoux, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Salim Kechiouche

    At fifteen, Adele doesn’t question it: girls go out with boys. Her life is changed forever when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of the others, Adele grows, seek herself, loses herself, finds herself…

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