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61st Pula Film Festival, 2014 |
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6 July 2014 |
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Pula Film Festival, one of the oldest among European film festivals, opens on July 12 for it’s 61st edition. Lasting 12 full days, this year Pula FF added two more sections to its program, the Youth Programme (Dizalica) and Pula Cinemateque, besides the Croatian Programme, the International Programme, the Children’s Programme (Pulica) and the Retrospective.
Film under the stars
The two new sections, along with all the films screened and their categories were presented at a press conference in Zagreb by Hrvoje Puksec, President of Pula’s Artistic Board, Festival Director Gordana Restovic and Vladimir Stojsavljevic, Minister of Culture, referring to this year’s organization along with all the sidebar programmes, and, to the importance of the Festival for Croatian film in general.
Pula Film Festival’s Artistic Board comprising Hrvoje Puksec, the president, and board members Mike Downey and Tanja Milicic, selected twelve feature-length films that will make up the Croatian Programme of the festival.
Croatian Programme’s Jury will be comprised of Amra Baksic Camo, producer from Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatian actress Natasa Dorcic, Ivana Fumic, editor from Croatia, British film critic Nick Holdsworth from The Hollywood Reporter and Antonio Nuic, director from Croatia.
This year’s International Programme is divided into the competition and out of competition sections. 4 are the Balkan film taking place:
Bridges of Sarajevo by Aida Begic, Leonardo di Costanzo, Jean-Luc Godard, Kamen Kalev, Isild Le Besco, Sergey Loznitsa, Vincenzo Marra, Ursula Meier, Vladimir Perisic, Cristi Puiu, Marc Recha, Angela Schanelec, Teresa Villaverde, France/ Bosnia-Herzegovina/Switzerland/Italy/Portugal/Bulgaria
The Golden Arenas
International Programm’s Jury will be comprised of Leo Barraclough, film critic, Variety, Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, director, producer and actor (this year’s Retrospective) and director Stanislav Tomic.
Following the already traditional Children’s Programme (Pulica), a film programme with a growing number of spectators, new Youth Programme (Dizalica) aimes at young cinephiles aged 16 to 21 with films selected upon the quality and the subject-matter relevant for that age group.
Going to this year’s festival Retrospective section, we find the works of Fridrik Thor Fridriksson, a filmmaker and complete author from Iceland who has tried his hand at a number of film aspects (director, screenwriter, actor, producer, editor). Also, 61st Pula FF second programme novelty, the Pula Cinematheque, a return to the famous past of the Festival according to a selection made by acclaimed filmmaker Rajko Grlic, who picks the year 1965 and the 20 excellent films screened as part of ‘65 Main Competition, among others, the films to be screened this year:
For more info:
A short history of Pula FF Hrvoje Puksec, President of the Artistic Board of Pula FF interview Pula PRO, a programme for professionals and students in AV industries
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