Sunday | 13. July. 2014

JIMMY’S HALL OPENS PULA’S INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMME

The International Programme of the 61st Pula Film Festival opens tonight at Kaštel. Jimmy’s Hall, a new film by acclaimed British director Ken Loach, will be showcased at 21:30 h. The film is set in 1921. Jimmy Gralton’s sin was to build a dance hall on a rural crossroads in Ireland where young people could come to learn, to argue, to dream. But above all – to dance and have fun. Jimmy’s Hall celebrates the spirit of these free thinkers.

The film Miracle directed by Juraj Lehotský will be presented tonight at 23:30. Michaela Bendulová, Robert Roth, Venuša Kalejová, Lenka Habrunová and Kika Potočná appear in a story of 15-year-old Ela who is sent to a re-education centre because of her love affair with Roby, a thirty-year-old man. She has a child’s face, but her body is very feminine despite her age. The first evening at the re-education centre, Ela has to stand on an impromptu stage where she is subjected to the so-called public confession. Ela loves Roby, but she is not allowed to contact him. She decides to run away from the centre during the New Year’s Eve disco. This is Juray Lehotský’s second feature-length film.